∗Thanks to audiences at Tufts University, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Toronto for helpful comments and questions. Special thanks to Benj Hellie and Jonathan McCoy for detailed feedback on previous versions, and to Robert Axtell, whose suggestion that reductions in degrees of freedom play a role in the physically unproblematic emergence of complex systems (made during the 2...

I would like to thank Benj Hellie, Chris Peacocke, and Susanna Siegel for their very interesting commentaries on The Character of Consciousness. All of them focus mainly on issues from the second half of the book, especially issues concerning the contents of consciousness. Hellie focuses especially on the role of acquaintance and perceptual attention in perception and introspection and on the o...

In this study the MEA (multielectrode array) system was used to record electrical responses of intact and halved traps, and other trap-free tissues of two aquatic carnivorous plants, Aldrovanda vesiculosa and Utricularia reflexa. They exhibit rapid trap movements and their traps contain numerous glands. Spontaneous generation of spikes with quite uniform shape, propagating across the recording ...

Utricularia gibba is an aquatic carnivorous plant with highly specialized morphology, featuring fibrous floating networks of branches and leaf-like organs, no recognizable roots, and bladder traps that capture and digest prey. We recently described the compressed genome of U. gibba as sufficient to control the development and reproduction of a complex organism. We hypothesized intense deletion ...

The underwater traps of the carnivorous plants of the Utricularia species catch their prey through the repetition of an "active slow deflation followed by passive fast suction" sequence. In this paper, we propose a mechanical model that describes both phases and strongly supports the hypothesis that the trap door acts as a flexible valve that buckles under the combined effects of pressure force...

A new species-group (the popeye group) of the mega-diverse dolichopodid genus Campsicnemus from French Polynesia is described to include six new species: C. craigi Evenhuis, sp. nov.; C. elinae Evenhuis, sp. nov.; C. meyeri Evenhuis, sp. nov.; C. moorea Evenhuis, sp. nov.; C. pectinatus Evenhuis, sp. nov.; and C. popeye Evenhuis, sp. nov. Keys to Campsicnemus species groups in French Polynesia ...

The reniform nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformis, has become a serious threat to cotton and soybean production in Arkansas and the mid-South. Yield losses caused by this nematode in the field range as high as 50%. In the absence of resistant cultivars, nematicides, and crop rotation are the available methods for controlling this nematode (Robbins et al., 1994). Limited information is available o...