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What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
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- 01michael levin
- 02bioelectricity
- 03morphogenesis
Michael Levin's NeurIPS 2018 talk on bioelectric computation outside the nervous system, showing how cell electrical networks shape development and regeneration. It covers morphological information processing in living tissue.
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Levin's talk on bioelectric computation in the body
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