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The Velvet Underground Emerges

Like all life on Earth, animals and fungi share a common ancestor, but it’s been a good 1,500,000,000 years since we parted company, and that’s been plenty of time for us to figure out different ways of going about things. Whether we’re a mildew or a marmoset, a chanterelle or a chanticleer, a toadstool or a toad, we all need to respond to the outside world by using regulatory systems that turn...

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Representation Emerges from Coupled Behavior

We present Starcat, an architecture for emergent fluid cognition. We describe the role knowledge representation plays in Starcat, and share insights about that representation which have been discovered in the process of our research. These insights are chiefly that 1) emergent behavior drives emergent representation (whereas in traditional systems representation drives behavior), and 2) that wh...

The Ribosome Emerges from a Black Box

Although the basic facts about the ribosome were already known 40 years ago, elucidating its atomic structure and molecular mechanisms required sheer persistence and the innovative use of new technology and methods. These advances have transformed our understanding of translation in the cell.

Transcriptional memory emerges from cooperative histone modifications

1 Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics of Leipzig University, D-04107 Leipzig, Härtelstr. 16-18, Germany 2 Leipzig Interdisciplinary Research Cluster of Genetic Factors, Clinical Phenotypes and Environment (LIFE); Universität Leipzig, D-04103 Leipzig, Philipp-Rosenthalstr. 27, Germany 3 Computational EvoDevo Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, D-04107 Leipzig, Hä...