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Research Paper

Somatic multicellularity as a satisficing solution to the prediction-error minimization problem

Chris FieldsCaunes Minervois, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael LevinAllen Discovery Center at Tufts University, Medford, MAUSAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7292-8084View further author information
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Pages 119-132 | Received 24 May 2019, Accepted 07 Jul 2019, Published online: 28 Jul 2019

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Chris Fields & Michael Levin. (2020) Why isn’t sex optional? Stem-cell competition, loss of regenerative capacity, and cancer in metazoan evolution. Communicative & Integrative Biology 13:1, pages 170-183.
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Chris Fields & Michael Levin. (2020) Does regeneration recapitulate phylogeny? Planaria as a model of body-axis specification in ancestral eumetazoa. Communicative & Integrative Biology 13:1, pages 27-38.
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Chris Fields & Michael Levin. (2023) Regulative development as a model for origin of life and artificial life studies. Biosystems 229, pages 104927.
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Karl Friston, Daniel A. Friedman, Axel Constant, V. Bleu Knight, Chris Fields, Thomas Parr & John O. Campbell. (2023) A Variational Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Dynamics. Entropy 25:7, pages 964.
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Léo Pio-Lopez, Franz Kuchling, Angela Tung, Giovanni Pezzulo & Michael Levin. (2022) Active inference, morphogenesis, and computational psychiatry. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 16.
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Chris Fields & Michael Levin. (2022) Competency in Navigating Arbitrary Spaces as an Invariant for Analyzing Cognition in Diverse Embodiments. Entropy 24:6, pages 819.
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Franz Kuchling, Chris Fields & Michael Levin. (2022) Metacognition as a Consequence of Competing Evolutionary Time Scales. Entropy 24:5, pages 601.
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Wiktor Rorot. (2021) Bayesian theories of consciousness: a review in search for a minimal unifying model. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2021:2.
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Chris Fields & Michael Levin. (2020) Scale‐Free Biology: Integrating Evolutionary and Developmental Thinking. BioEssays 42:8, pages 1900228.
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Chris Fields, Johanna Bischof & Michael Levin. (2020) Morphological Coordination: A Common Ancestral Function Unifying Neural and Non-Neural Signaling. Physiology 35:1, pages 16-30.
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Michael Levin. (2019) The Computational Boundary of a “Self”: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition. Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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