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Commentary on Wright and Bourke "The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Paul E Rapp
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Mentalising allostasis: The sense that I should eat: Comment on "The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure" by Jordan E. Theriault, Liane Young, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Aikaterini Fotopoulou
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Wanted: Architecture for changing minds: A comment on "The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-08-21 Moshe Bar
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Binding brain dynamics building up heteroclinic networks: Comment on "The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation" by J.J. Wright and P.D. Bourke. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-08-21 Pablo Varona,Mikhail I Rabinovich
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From computer vision to epilepsy, a comment on "The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Naoum P Issa
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Cognition coming about: Self-organisation and free-energy: Commentary on Wright, J.J. and Bourke, P.D. (2020) "The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Inês Hipólito,Maxwell Ramstead,Axel Constant,Karl J Friston
Wright and Bourke's compelling article rightly points out that existing models of embryogenesis fail to explain the mechanisms and functional significance of the dynamic connections among neurons. We pursue their account of Dynamic Logic by appealing to the Markov blanket formalism that underwrites the Free Energy Principle. We submit that this allows one to model embryogenesis as self-organisation
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Spatiotemporal neuroscience - what is it and why we need it. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-07-10 Georg Northoff,Soren Wainio-Theberge,Kathinka Evers
The excellent commentaries to our target paper hint upon three main issues, (i) spatiotemporal neuroscience; (ii) neuro-mental relationship; and (iii) mind, brain, and world relationship. (i) We therefore discuss briefly the history of Spatiotemporal Neuroscience. Distinguishing it from Cognitive Neuroscience and related branches (like Affective, Social, etc. Neuroscience), Spatiotemporal Neuroscience
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The convergence of minerals and life: Reply to comments on "Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Juan Manuel García-Ruiz,Mark A van Zuilen,Wolfgang Bach
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Laws of nature that define biological action and perception. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Mark L Latash
We describe a physical approach to biological functions, with the emphasis on the motor and sensory functions. The approach assumes the existence of biology-specific laws of nature uniting salient physical variables and parameters. In contrast to movements in inanimate nature, actions are produced by changes in parameters of the corresponding laws of nature. For movements, parameters are associated
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The role of synchronization in neural systems and their consequence to the neural behavior: Comment on "The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 K L Rossi,B R R Boaretto,R C Budzinski
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Synthetic connectomes at the interface: Reply to comments on "What would a synthetic connectome look like?" Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Ithai Rabinowitch
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A comment on "The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Heiko J Luhmann,Anne Sinning
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Integrating variational approaches to pattern formation into a deeper physics: Reply to comments on "Morphogenesis as Bayesian inference: A variational approach to pattern formation and manipulation in complex biological systems". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-07-10 Franz Kuchling,Karl Friston,Georgi Georgiev,Michael Levin
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The epistemic value of conformity: Comment on "The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure" by Jordan E. Theriault, Liane Young, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Luca Tummolini,Giovanni Pezzulo
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How should the political animals of the 21st century feel?: Comment on "The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modelling social pressure" by J.E. Theriault et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-06-26 Manos Tsakiris
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Origins, transitions, and traces of life: Comment on "Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet" by J.M. García-Ruiz et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 E J Javaux,M C Sforna
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Computational creativity beyond machine learning. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Hannu Toivonen
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Formic acid, the precursor of formamide, from serpentinization: Comment on the paper: "Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet" by Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Mark A. van Zuilen and Wolfgang Bach. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Judit E Šponer,Jiří Šponer
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Mineral self-organized structures in pre-biotic chemistry: Comment on: "Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet" by J.M. Garcia-Ruiz et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 Helmut Cölfen
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What kind of explanation is the constructing and coasting strategy?: Comment on: "The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure" by Jordan E. Theriault, Liane Young, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-06-08 Axel Constant,Karl J Friston,Maxwell J D Ramstead
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Boundary versus enabling conditions for the origins of life: Comment on "Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet" by García-Ruiz et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-06-06 Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo
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The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 J J Wright,P D Bourke
The assumption that during cortical embryogenesis neurons and synaptic connections are selected to form an ensemble maximising synchronous oscillation explains mesoscopic cortical development, and a mechanism for cortical information processing is implied by consistency with the Free Energy Principle and Dynamic Logic.A heteroclinic network emerges, with stable and unstable fixed points of oscillation
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Collisional broadening and hyperfine structure of rotational transitions. Reply to the comments on "A never-ending story in the sky: The secrets of chemical evolution". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 Cristina Puzzarini,Vincenzo Barone
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Reply to comments on "Prebiotic chemistry and origins of life research with atomistic computer simulations". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 Andrea Pérez-Villa,Fabio Pietrucci,A Marco Saitta
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Similarities between terrestrial planets at the time life appeared on Earth: Comment on "Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet" by J.M. García-Ruiz et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 Jorge L Vago,Frances Westall
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IDyOT architecture - is this how minds operate? Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 Włodzisław Duch
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Global Workspace Theory, LIDA and IDyOT. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-05-18 Stan Franklin
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Musical form: A challenge for models of musical cognition: Comment on "Creativity, information, and consciousness: The information dynamics of thinking", by Geraint A. Wiggins. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-05-15 Richard Ashley
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Crystals and the debates on the nature, recognition and origin of life: Comment on "Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet" by J.M. García-Ruiz et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-05-13 Juli Peretó
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Long living transients: Enfant terrible of ecological theory?: Reply to comments on "Long transients in ecology: Theory and applications". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-04-06 Andrew Morozov,Karen Abbott,Kim Cuddington,Tessa Francis,Gabriel Gellner,Alan Hastings,Ying-Cheng Lai,Sergei Petrovskii,Katherine Scranton,Mary Lou Zeeman
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Hints from statistical physics and graph theory to build synthetic connectomes: Comment on "What would a synthetic connectome look like?" by I. Rabinowitch. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Mauricio Girardi-Schappo,Ariadne de Andrade Costa
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The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-01-23 Jordan E Theriault,Liane Young,Lisa Feldman Barrett
What is social pressure, and how could it be adaptive to conform to others' expectations? Existing accounts highlight the importance of reputation and social sanctions. Yet, conformist behavior is multiply determined: sometimes, a person desires social regard, but at other times she feels obligated to behave a certain way, regardless of any reputational benefit-i.e. she feels a sense of should. We
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Long transients in complex systems: Additional challenges for ecological modeling: Comment on "Long transients in ecology: Theory and applications" by A. Morozov et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-01-13 Ulrike Feudel
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Mineral self-organization on a lifeless planet. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2020-01-13 Juan Manuel García-Ruiz,Mark A van Zuilen,Wolfgang Bach
It has been experimentally demonstrated that, under alkaline conditions, silica is able to induce the formation of mineral self-assembled inorganic-inorganic composite materials similar in morphology, texture and nanostructure to the hybrid biomineral structures that, millions of years later, life was able to self-organize. These mineral self-organized structures (MISOS) have been also shown to work
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Muscleless motor synergies and actions without movements: From motor neuroscience to cognitive robotics. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2018-04-27 Vishwanathan Mohan,Ajaz Bhat,Pietro Morasso
Emerging trends in neurosciences are providing converging evidence that cortical networks in predominantly motor areas are activated in several contexts related to 'action' that do not cause any overt movement. Indeed for any complex body, human or embodied robot inhabiting unstructured environments, the dual processes of shaping motor output during action execution and providing the self with information
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Introduction to the special issue on physics of mind. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-11-19 Felix Schoeller
In recent years, both fields of physics and psychology have made important scientific advances. The emergence of new instruments gave rise to a data-driven neuroscience allowing us to learn about the state of the brain supporting known mental functions and conversely. In parallel, the appearance of new mathematics allowed the development of computational models describing fundamental brain functions
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Does being multi-headed make you better at solving problems? A survey of Physarum-based models and computations. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2018-05-22 Chao Gao,Chen Liu,Daniel Schenz,Xuelong Li,Zili Zhang,Marko Jusup,Zhen Wang,Madeleine Beekman,Toshiyuki Nakagaki
Physarum polycephalum, a single-celled, multinucleate slime mould, is a seemingly simple organism, yet it exhibits quasi-intelligent behaviour during extension, foraging, and as it adapts to dynamic environments. For these reasons, Physarum is an attractive target for modelling with the underlying goal to uncover the physiological mechanisms behind the exhibited quasi-intelligence and/or to devise
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Physarum inspires research beyond biomimetic algorithms Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-07-11 Chao Gao, Chen Liu, Daniel Schenz, Xuelong Li, Zili Zhang, Marko Jusup, Zhen Wang, Madeleine Beekman, Toshiyuki Nakagaki
We look at a recent expansion of Physarum research from inspiring biomimetic algorithms to serving as a model organism in the evolutionary study of perception, memory, learning, and decision making.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of small neural ensembles in high-dimensional brain. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Alexander N Gorban,Valeri A Makarov,Ivan Y Tyukin
Complexity is an indisputable, well-known, and broadly accepted feature of the brain. Despite the apparently obvious and widely-spread consensus on the brain complexity, sprouts of the single neuron revolution emerged in neuroscience in the 1970s. They brought many unexpected discoveries, including grandmother or concept cells and sparse coding of information in the brain. In machine learning for a
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Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2018-12-06 Anna M Borghi,Laura Barca,Ferdinand Binkofski,Cristiano Castelfranchi,Giovanni Pezzulo,Luca Tummolini
The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (e.g. "freedom") and their associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories conceptualize language as a way to index referents, a shortcut to access meaning, or a way to access meaning through words associations. WAT goes beyond these theories by identifying additional functions of words and language:
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Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation? Perspectives and challenges. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-06-12 Guy Vingerhoets
Directional hemispheric dominance has been established for numerous cognitive functions in the human brain. Strong population biases with some functions favoring the left and others the right hemisphere generated the popular idea of an advantageous prototypical division of labor between both halves of the brain, molded by evolution and genetically blueprinted. As most empirical studies on functional
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Replication and emergence in cultural transmission. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-04-11 Monica Tamariz
Humans are fundamentally defined by our socially transmitted, often long-lived, sophisticated cultural traits. The nature of cultural transmission is the subject of ongoing debate: while some emphasize that it is a biased, transformational process, others point out that high-fidelity transmission is required to explain the quintessentially cumulative nature of human culture. This paper integrates both
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Sudden regime shifts after apparent stasis: Comment on "Long transients in ecology: Theory and applications" by Andrew Morozov et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-11-28 Celso Grebogi
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The final frontier in connectomics: Forward engineering brain networks: Comment on "What would a synthetic connectome look like?" by Ithai Rabinowitch. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-11-12 Emma K Towlson
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Connectome of synthetic cells: Comment on "What would a synthetic connectome look like?" by Ithai Rabinowitch. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-11-12 Jose L Alejo,Katarzyna P Adamala
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Driving the connectome by-wire: Comment on "What would a synthetic connectome look like?" by Ithai Rabinowitch. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-11-12 Eli Shlizerman
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The complementarity of 'Muscleless' motor synergies with motor control strategies in humans and robots: Reply to comments on "Muscleless motor synergies and actions without movements: From motor neuroscience to cognitive robotics". Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-11-11 Vishwanathan Mohan,Pietro Morasso,Ajaz Bhat
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Uncovering the spatiotemporal scales of common neuro-mental constructs: Comment on "Is temporo-spatial dynamics the 'common currency' of brain and mind? In Quest of 'Spatiotemporal Neuroscience'" by Georg Northoff et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-10-22 Manel Vila-Vidal,Katerina Capouskova,Selen Atasoy,Morten L Kringelbach,Gustavo Deco
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Harmonic waves as the fundamental principle underlying temporo-spatial dynamics of brain and mind: Comment on "Is temporo-spatial dynamics the "common currency" of brain and mind? In Quest of "Spatiotemporal Neuroscience"" Georg Northoff et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-10-15 Selen Atasoy,Gustavo Deco,Morten L Kringelbach
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From spatio-temporal brain-mind dynamics to Spatiotemporal Neuroscience: Comment on "Is temporo-spatial dynamics the "common currency" of brain and mind? In Quest of "Spatiotemporal Neuroscience"" by Georg Northoff, Soren Wainio-Theberge, Kathinka Evers. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-09-27 Andrew A Fingelkurts,Alexander A Fingelkurts,Carlos F H Neves
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Back in Time and Space: Comment on "Is temporo-spatial dynamics the "common currency" of brain and mind? In Quest of "Spatiotemporal Neuroscience"" by Georg Northoff et al. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-09-26 Zirui Huang
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From science-fiction to present life: Comment on "A never-ending story in the sky: The secrets of chemical evolution" by C. Puzzarini and V. Barone. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Oscar N Ventura
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What can we learn from healthy atypical individuals on the segregation of complementary functions?: Comment on "Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation? Perspectives and challenges" by Guy Vingerhoets. Phys. Life Rev. (IF 14.789) Pub Date : 2019-09-13 Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer,Laure Zago,Bernard Mazoyer
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