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We study consciousness and intelligence as properties of living systems at every scale — from single cells to collectives, from bioelectric fields to morphogenetic memory.
"The minimal unit of cognition may not be the neuron — it may be the cell itself, navigating a problem space we have only begun to map."
Recent Activity
All logs →The single-cell atlas and what it implies for cognition
The CZ Biohub's human cell atlas project is the most ambitious cellular mapping effort in history. What does having a complete map of cell types actually tell us about how the body computes?
Sheldrake's morphic resonance — taking it seriously
Most scientists dismiss morphic resonance before they've actually engaged with the mechanism Sheldrake proposes. I spent today trying to steelman it properly.
Levin on gap junctions as cognitive glue
Gap junctions aren't passive electrical conduits — they're the mechanism by which cells decide what collective they belong to.
Forest Language: The Inevitable Merge of Natural and Classical Computing
A 125-page paper on the convergence of biological and classical computation — two years in the making. The central question: what does it look like when the logic of nature and the logic of machines become the same thing?
Research Areas
Bioelectricity
Electrical fields in tissues as the medium through which cells encode body plans, coordinate behavior, and store morphogenetic memory.
Basal Cognition
Goal-directed, adaptive behavior in non-neural systems — how single cells sense, decide, and remember without a brain.
Collective Intelligence
How populations of cells and organisms self-organize into coherent wholes without central control or explicit instruction.
Morphogenetic Fields
Field-based information structures that guide developmental form — the geometry of life beyond the gene.
Consciousness
The hard problem and its biological substrate. What is the minimal physical system capable of subjective experience?
Cellular Programming
Writing to the software of living systems — optogenetics, synthetic biology, and the frontier of programmable organisms.