This is a primary citation underlying this discussion of Michale Levin's work: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127028">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39127028</a><p>Though old, I don't see it ever submitted, and am curious to hear takes from educated folks on this. It dovetails with Friston's Free Energy Principle (which he cites).<p>Overall I find this an interesting way to look at things, but sometimes not sure how much value the perspective adds.<p>I'm hungry to move beyond interesting examples from development, and towards a more rich understanding of what somatic cognition is capable of, esp. with regard to bioelectric fields. But, that's easy for me to say, and probably pretty hard to do given our biology tools.