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Morphogenesis is a fundamentally cognitive process rather than a purely mechanical one.
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- Michael Levin Developmental and synthetic biologist
I argue that morphogenesis is not a mechanical process captured by emergence of complexity, but a fundamentally cognitive one: living matter constitutes an agential material whose multi-scale problem-solving capacities cannot be fully captured by conventional mechanistic or cellular automaton models.
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