Excellent; here's how their paper's abstract looks when FieldShift (levinlab.dev/fieldshift) pivots that idea into non-brain-based body intelligence: A critical mystery in developmental biology lies in determining how molecular structure impacts the complex morphogenetic dynamics of body tissues. How do large-scale gene expression patterns in body tissues constrain states of bioelectrical activity and transitions between those states? We address these questions using a maximum entropy model of morphogenesis informed by spatial gene expression profiling. We demonstrate that the most probable anatomical states – characterized by minimal energy – display common bioelectric profiles across body areas: local spatially-contiguous sets of body regions reminiscent of morphogenetic systems are co-activated frequently. The predicted activation rate of these systems is highly correlated with the observed activation rate measured in a separate resting state voltage reporter dye data set, validating the utility of the maximum entropy model in describing cell bioelectrical dynamics. This approach also offers a formal notion of the energy of activity within a system, and the energy of activity shared between systems. We observe that within- and between-system energies cleanly separate morphogenetic systems into distinct categories, optimized for differential contributions to integrated versus segregated function. These results support the notion that energetic and transcriptional constraints circumscribe body dynamics, offering insights into the roles that morphogenetic systems play in driving whole-body bioelectric patterns.

Cool talk by Nicholas Humphrey youtube.com/watch?v=9QWaZp_2… on how consciousness evolved. He emphasizes warm-blooded brains, but processes he mentions are ancient, & predate neurons + pivot from navigating morphogenetic space to 3D behavioral space. levinlab.dev/fieldshift translates:

Trying out a famous quote in levinlab.dev/fieldshift :

Another view: I find it highly concerning that a myriad beings come into a world with an embodiment determined by pure chance & genetics, with no one maximizing their quality of life and potential. We have to change that; evolution's random meanderings are not satisfactory.

Here's what our system (levinlab.dev/fieldshift) generates from the Absract of @dimitrispp and @MillerLabMIT lovely work ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3527…. The Abstract it produces is very reasonable, and sounds exactly like a paper we aspire to write someday soon.