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Michael Levin on the foundations of cognition

Thing in itself

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Gene Regulatory Networks Can Learn

The majority of our lab is looking at cognition and unfamiliar guys. We are not the first person to realize that gene regulatory networks can learn. And we found that even GRNs are capable of if you look at them the right way, meaning if you choose the right nodes for your stimulus. It's amazing. The better way would be a timed pulse stimulation where you're literally trying to behavior shape the network. So that's a completely different way. But we're certainly working now on those kinds of applications.

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