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This Animal's Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed

Jun 22, 2022
25:09
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
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2
How Mechanical Interactions Can Generate Complexity
02:55 • 4min
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3
Precache and Bowl - A Playground for Testing Hypotheses
06:55 • 2min
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4
The Silica's Walking Gait
08:41 • 4min
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5
The Neurons Aren't Getting Pase
12:22 • 3min
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Molecular Mechanics of Complex Systems
15:41 • 2min
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Is There Inertia?
17:22 • 2min
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Precash's Spectroscopy of a Biological System
19:15 • 3min
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How to Build a Brain From Mechanical Networks
22:25 • 3min
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Biomechanical interactions, rather than neurons, control the movements of one of the simplest animals. The discovery offers a glimpse into how animal behavior worked before neurons evolved.

The post This Animal’s Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed first appeared in Quanta Magazine.

Music is “Running Out” by Patrick Patrikios.

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