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

1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session 📍June 27, 18:00 BST on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7 This work bridges generative #AI and evolutionary biology by integrating diffusion models into evolutionary optimization frameworks like HADES. 🤖 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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

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 control

Most 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 ...

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New preprint with a brilliant team of quantum chemists from @tuwien.at (A. Adel, J. Szmitek, R. Wanzenböck, G. Madsen): Guided adaptive diffusion: An evolutionary framework for multi-modal atomistic structure prediction doi.org/10.26434/che... HADES 4 materials discovery!

Call for papers for 'Artificial Life for Science and Engineering' at ALife 26. We seek work applying ALife concepts and tools to model real-world systems and engineer solutions — and assist scientific discovery through open-ended and curiosity-driven search. Call info: alifeforscience.github.io

New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2601.14096 @chrisfields38.bsky.social @bhartl.bsky.social Leo Pio-Lopez "Remapping and navigation of an embedding space via error minimization: a fundamental organizational principle of cognition in natural and artificial systems" 🧪

Remapping and navigation of an embedding space via error minimization: a fundamental organizational principle of cognition in natural and artificial systems

The emerging field of diverse intelligence seeks an integrated view of problem-solving in agents of very different provenance, composition, and substrates. From subcellular chemical networks to swarms...

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Excited to announce our new review on "Neural cellular automata: Applications to biology and beyond classical AI" is out in Physics of Life Reviews doi.org/10.1016/j.pl... ... work with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and Leo Pio-Lopez

Mike Levin@drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Final version is out: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEoa5bD-s... "Neural cellular automata: Applications to biology and beyond classical AI" @bhartl.bsky.social Léo Pio-Lopez

Official version is out - aging as loss of goal-directedness: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @bhartl.bsky.social Léo Pio-Lopez

New #preprint - @bhartl.bsky.social , Léo Pio-Lopez arxiv.org/abs/2509.11131 "Neural cellular automata: applications to biology and beyond classical AI"

Neural cellular automata: applications to biology and beyond classical AI

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) represent a powerful framework for modeling biological self-organization, extending classical rule-based systems with trainable, differentiable (or evolvable) update rul...

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Everything reminds me of #TCTeAC When are we doing this again?

Read this piece. It gives a great impression of #TCTeAC WoodstockBio2 & Night Science from one of the #Instigators. This is the next best thing to being there... I like the expression #BohemianFixers. Many thanks to them! Děkujeme. thenode.biologists.com/from-posters...

From Posters to Parades: Inside Woodstock.Bio² & Night Science Conference - the Node

A fever dream of science and spirit wrapped in the forests of Bohemia. Here’s an escalating list — starting with the standard (though nothing was standard

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New paper with @bhartl.bsky.social : "What does evolution make? Learning in living lineages and machines" cell.com/trends/genet... Genes code for proteins, but what is the relationship between the genome and the large-scale form and function of organisms? What is a good formalism for thinking

What does evolution make? Learning in living lineages and machines

How does genomic information unfold, to give rise to self-constructing living organisms with problem-solving capacities at all levels of organization? We review recent progress that unifies work in de...

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Indeed Oded. Some Will think of #TCTeAC as escapism, but I think it was showing us how beautiful we can make this world if the guiding values are respect & trust, and if world leaders would adopt a vision that is based on hope instead of hatred. On collaboration instead of competition. 💚

A very short summary of "Data Visualization against fascism": Fascism conceals truths, disregards evidence-based decision-making, and jeopardizes the education of the next generation. Standing up against means: MONITOR, EXPOSE, and EDUCATE. As scientists we are ready for this! #TCTeAC

Let's not be #TCTeAC "The Conference To END All Conferences", but a new format of many more such events. Depating science outside of our typical nutshell (scientifically and mentally) has great potential - we could have come up with 50+ project proposals together. Let's bring fun back to science :)

#TCTeAC - the Woodstock of Biology2 & #nightscience - was such an amazing event!! We met great scientists who creatively presented their high quality work. We dreamt and discussed in a very broad, open-minded setting. Talking science outside of our nutshell can be soo valuable - let's do this again!

Everybody is just talking about the fun #TCTeAC but the high quality of science, across a diverse range of fields, was equally impressive. Thanks to the organizers, such a unique event.

The slide you submitted | The slide you’re presenting #tcteac #PragueSights

science is magic #TCTeAC

#fightforsciemce at #TCTeAC with #nightscience :) cell & gene people gather together. (no scientist got hurt)

#nightscience at #TCTeAC, hence the umbrella

over time at #TCTeAC

biology vs theology at #TCTeAC

Over the last century, biologists developed a strong model of morphogenesis: the genome defines the microscopic hardware that sets the rules of how cells interact wich leads to the emergence of an organism. We invite you to see this through the lens of collective and generative intelligence.

Trends in Genetics@cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · last yr.

Online Now! A new Opinion: "What does evolution make? Learning in living lineages and machines" by Benedikt Hartl (@bhartl.bsky.social) & Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin.bsky.social) FREE access till July 30th with this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lE%7EGcQb...

@woodstocknightsci.bsky.social we get to hear what we can learn from mantis shrimps :)

@woodstocknightsci.bsky.social the conference to end all conferences

New #preprint with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social: osf.io/r8z7c/ "What does evolution make? Learning in living lineages and machines." Some thoughts about recent developments in collective AI and evolutionary developmental biology.

New preprint with Nic Rouleau (allencenter.tufts.edu/nicolas-roul...) : what do the major theories of #consciousness say as to why it's specifically associated with brains? osf.io/preprints/ps... "Brains and Where Else? Mapping Theories of Consciousness to Unconventional Embodiments" 🧪

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