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This Animal's Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed

The Quanta Podcast

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How Mechanical Interactions Can Generate Complexity

Oras precach says jokingly, often called us neuroscience without nurons. He and boll simultaneously posted a trio of preprints totaling more than 100 pages on the arc ve dot org server last year. They show that the behavior of trico plax could be described entirely in the language of physics and dynamical systems. Mechanical interactions began at the level of a single silium and then multiplied over millions of cells and extended to high levels of structure.

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