How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are
questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because …

Learning is commonplace in organisms such as ourselves and even in organisms as far
distant as the bee and the octopus. Such learning is implemented by brains, or neuronal …

Evolution exploits the physics of non‐neural bioelectricity to implement anatomical
homeostasis: a process in which embryonic patterning, remodeling, and regeneration …

Patterns of resting potential in non-excitable cells of living tissue are now known to be
instructive signals for pattern formation during embryogenesis, regeneration and cancer …

The remarkable anatomical homeostasis exhibited by complex living organisms suggests
that they are inherently reprogrammable information-processing systems that offer …

There are easier things to make than a brain. Driven by the promise and resources of
biomedical research, developmental neurobiologists are trying to understand how it is done …

Multiscale competency is a central phenomenon in biology: molecular networks, cells,
tissues, and organisms all solve problems via behavior in various spaces (metabolic …

The field of basal cognition seeks to understand how adaptive, context-specific behavior
occurs in non-neural biological systems. Embryogenesis and regeneration require plasticity …

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 …

Mental terms—such as perception, cognition, action, emotion, as well as attention, memory,
decision-making—are epistemically sterile. We support our thesis based on extensive …