Chris Fields, Michael Levin
Physics of Life Reviews
• An information-theoretic approach to biology renders “objects” and “processes” interchangable at every scale.
• Morphogenesis is a process of memory construction at every scale.
• Life depends on lateral information flows between its component lineages at every scale.
• Viewing living systems as multi-scale competency architectures forefronts communication via scale-appropriate interfaces, as opposed to manipulation of components, as a strategy for both therapuetic intervention and bioengineering.
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