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new #preprint @pigozzife.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2607.28250 Once you get replicators, Darwinian evolution can happen. What's happening *before* replicators arise? "Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-Life"

Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-LifeAgents that exert causal power in the world are thought to be the product of selection among diverse replicators; what is the causal structure of a medium before replicators appear, and evolution take...arxiv.org

New #preprint: @steffikapsetaki.bsky.social , Tomer Landsberger www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Do individual planaria exposed to the same stressor find the same, or different, transcriptional solutions to that problem? 🧪

Transcriptional Profiling of Planarian Regeneration Habituating to Physiological Stressor Reveals Individual and Collective DynamicsExposure to the potassium channel blocker barium chloride (BaCl₂) causes head degeneration in Dugesia japonica flatworms, followed by regeneration of BaCl₂-insensitive heads, offering a unique model f...www.biorxiv.org

Final version: @bhartl.bsky.social, Leo Pio-Lopez, Chris Fields www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Remapping and navigation of an embedding space via error minimization: A fundamental organizational principle of cognition in natural and artificial systems

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New #paper: rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/organ... Mostly unaltered conversation among some great people on the definitions of life.

New #preprint with Chris Fields: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... "Cognitive Offloading Is a Cognitive Universal" 🧪

What is life? Final version is out @blaiseaguera.bsky.social Reed Bender, Karina Kofman link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪

What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life - Biological TheoryThe question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...link.springer.com

What are the preferences of novel in silico and in vivo agents that aren't directly engineered toward a specific set of behaviors? An example, from the world of Lenia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenia) - here's our #preprint on agnosiophobia (avoidance of the unknown): arxiv.org/abs/2605.30708

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Might metabolic networks be trainable as gene-regulatory networks are (thoughtforms.life/but-where-is...)? New #preprint Axel de Baat "Homeostatic feedback model of energy metabolism with adaptive enzyme levels exhibits problem solving behavior" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ever wanted to talk to a gene regulatory network? Ever wonder what they could do in a different context, embodiment, space? New preprint - part of our approach for developing ways to talk to cells, organs, and much much weirder agents: @yanbozhang123.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2605.16321 🧪

Language Game: Talking to Non-Human SystemsLanguage carries thought and coordination among humans but rarely reaches further along the spectrum of diverse intelligence. Yet non-neural systems -- from gene regulatory networks and microbial cons...arxiv.org

Final forms of 3 new papers! #consciousness #selforganization #cognition #economics and more 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article... royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article... royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...

Brains and where else? Mapping theories of consciousness to unconventional embodimentsAbstract. It is assumed that a useful theory of consciousness (ToC) will explain why consciousness is associated with brains. However, the findings of evolroyalsocietypublishing.org

🧪 Awesome new theme issue of Philosophical Transactions: ‘World models in natural and artificial intelligence’ Thank you Adam Safron! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3...

Volume 384 Issue 2320 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | The Royal SocietyInfluential themed journal issues across the physical mathematical and engineering sciences.royalsocietypublishing.org

New #preprint, @pigozzife.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2605.06746 "The Causally Emergent Alignment Hypothesis: Causal Emergence Aligns with and Predicts Final Reward in Reinforcement Learning Agents" 🧪

The Causally Emergent Alignment Hypothesis: Causal Emergence Aligns with and Predicts Final Reward in Reinforcement Learning AgentsA hallmark of life on Earth is the ability of agents to exert causal power and be drivers of subsequent events. This is key to cognition at all scales. Causal emergence, measuring the degree to which ...arxiv.org

New #preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.01932 "BraiNCA: brain-inspired neural cellular automata and applications to morphogenesis and motor control" @bhartl.bsky.social and Leo Pio-Lopez:

BraiNCA: brain-inspired neural cellular automata and applications to morphogenesis and motor controlMost of the Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) defined in the literature have a common theme: they are based on regular grids with a Moore neighborhood (one-hop neighbour). They do not take into account ...arxiv.org

New #preprint: @LPiolopez and Benjamin Lyons www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... "From Cancer to AI Alignment: Tackling Externalities Through Homeostatic Principles"

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Some life forms:

New preprint! Memory in Xenobots. @paivaibhav.bsky.social , James A. Traer, Megan M. Sperry, Yuxin Zehg www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Two different experiences produced distinct, long-term, stimulus-specific memories, detectable through both transcriptional and physiological signatures.

What would a nervous system look like if it self-assembled inside a novel being that hadn't faced a history of selection for its organism-level form and function? How would #Xenobots look & act, and what their transcriptome would be, with neurons? advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....