flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates | Communications Biology

nature.com · 218 words · saved by 1 readers

A Perspective on how the tools of behavioral science and the emerging field of diverse intelligence help to understand decision-making of cellular collectives in evolutionary and biomedical contexts.

Download PDF Subjects Biophysics Cell biology Developmental biology Systems biology Abstract A defining feature of biology is the use of a multiscale architecture, ranging from molecular networks to cells, tissues, organs, whole bodies, and swarms. Crucially however, biology is not only nested structurally, but also functionally: each level is able to solve problems in distinct problem spaces, such as physiological, morphological, and behavioral state space. Percolating adaptive functionality from one level of competent subunits to a higher functional level of organization requires collective

Explore this link on the map →

related reading