new #preprint, @OSFramework , happy to have this out the door, been working on it for a while.
"Darwin’s Agential Materials: evolutionary implications of multi-scale competency in developmental biology"
osf.io/p23se/
"Darwin’s Agential Materials: evolutionary implications of multi-scale competency in developmental biology"
osf.io/p23se/
In prior papers, I argued for morphogenesis as a kind of collective intelligence navigating anatomical morphospace with various competencies. I proposed a few ways in which evolution scales up from single cells' tiny goals to agents with larger goals (e.g., specific target
morphologies). Here, I ponder the flip side of the intelligence-evolution feedback loop: what does the competency of the morphogenetic layer mean for the evolutionary process itself? What might be the ways in which evolution works over an agential material? Check out the
"director's cut" version here - pretty sure a lot of references, text, and some of the more speculative ideas, will have to be pulled out for the official journal version. Oh, and it has plant galls! Awesome plant galls.
Now, here are renditions of the title by @midjourney as Remedios Varo, Joan Miro, and my favorite, if it were a page of the Codex Seraphinianus:
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