Darwin's agential materials: evolutionary implications of multiscale competency in developmental biology

M Levin - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2023 - Springer
A critical aspect of evolution is the layer of developmental physiology that operates between
the genotype and the anatomical phenotype. While much work has addressed the evolution …

[HTML][HTML] Future medicine: from molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body

E Lagasse, M Levin - Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2023 - cell.com
The remarkable anatomical homeostasis exhibited by complex living organisms suggests
that they are inherently reprogrammable information-processing systems that offer …

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 …

Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates

P McMillen, M Levin - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
A defining feature of biology is the use of a multiscale architecture, ranging from molecular
networks to cells, tissues, organs, whole bodies, and swarms. Crucially however, biology is …

There's plenty of room right here: Biological systems as evolved, overloaded, multi-scale machines

J Bongard, M Levin - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The applicability of computational models to the biological world is an active topic of debate.
We argue that a useful path forward results from abandoning hard boundaries between …

Cellular competency during development alters evolutionary dynamics in an artificial embryogeny model

L Shreesha, M Levin - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biological genotypes do not code directly for phenotypes; developmental physiology is the
control layer that separates genomes from capacities ascertained by selection. A key aspect …

Why death and aging? All memories are imperfect

WB Miller Jr, F Baluška, AS Reber… - Progress in Biophysics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent papers have emphasized the primary role of cellular information management in
biological and evolutionary development. In this framework, intelligent cells collectively …

Sentient cells as basic units of tissues, organs and organismal physiology

F Baluška, WB Miller Jr, AS Reber - The Journal of Physiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cells evolved some 4 billion years ago, and since then the integrity of the structural and
functional continuity of cellular life has been maintained via highly conserved and ancient …

The multiple realizability of sentience in living systems and beyond

N Rouleau, M Levin - eneuro, 2023 - eneuro.org
Brains implement some of the most complex functions of living systems including
intelligence, decision-making, learning, and sentience, which is the capacity for subjective …

Reactive oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur species (RONSS) as a metabolic cluster for signaling and biostimulation of plants: an overview

J Medrano-Macías, AC Flores-Gallegos, E Nava-Reyna… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review highlights the relationship between the metabolism of reactive oxygen species
(ROS), reactive nitrogen species (RNS), and H2S-reactive sulfur species (RSS). These three …