A revised central dogma for the 21st century: All biology is cognitive information processing

WB Miller Jr, F Baluška, AS Reber - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Crick's Central Dogma has been a foundational aspect of 20th century biology,
describing an implicit relationship governing the flow of information in biological systems in …

Biomolecular basis of cellular consciousness via subcellular nanobrains

F Baluška, WB Miller Jr, AS Reber - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cells emerged at the very beginning of life on Earth and, in fact, are coterminous with life.
They are enclosed within an excitable plasma membrane, which defines the outside and …

[書籍][B] Transfer entropy

T Bossomaier, L Barnett, M Harré, JT Lizier… - 2016 - Springer
Transfer Entropy Page 1 Chapter 4 Transfer Entropy In this chapter we get to the essential
mathematics of the book—a detailed discussion of transfer entropy. To begin with we look at …

The computational boundary of a “self”: developmental bioelectricity drives multicellularity and scale-free cognition

M Levin - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
All epistemic agents physically consist of parts that must somehow comprise an integrated
cognitive self. Biological individuals consist of subunits (organs, cells, and molecular …

Intelligence as a planetary scale process

A Frank, D Grinspoon, S Walker - International Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Conventionally, intelligence is seen as a property of individuals. However, it is also known to
be a property of collectives. Here, we broaden the idea of intelligence as a collective …

Information flows? A critique of transfer entropies

RG James, N Barnett, JP Crutchfield - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
A central task in analyzing complex dynamics is to determine the loci of information storage
and the communication topology of information flows within a system. Over the last decade …

Criticality distinguishes the ensemble of biological regulatory networks

BC Daniels, H Kim, D Moore, S Zhou, HB Smith… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
The hypothesis that many living systems should exhibit near-critical behavior is well
motivated theoretically, and an increasing number of cases have been demonstrated …

The Cognitive Lens: a primer on conceptual tools for analysing information processing in developmental and regenerative morphogenesis

S Manicka, M Levin - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Brains exhibit plasticity, multi-scale integration of information, computation and memory,
having evolved by specialization of non-neural cells that already possessed many of the …

Origins of life: a problem for physics, a key issues review

SI Walker - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The origins of life stands among the great open scientific questions of our time. While a
number of proposals exist for possible starting points in the pathway from non-living to living …

Beyond prebiotic chemistry

L Cronin, SI Walker - Science, 2016 - science.org
How can matter transition from the nonliving to the living state? The answer is essential for
understanding the origin of life on Earth and for identifying promising targets in the search …