Showing papers in "Physics of Life Reviews in 2020"

TL;DR: It is proposed that the dynamics of time and space provides a "common currency" that connects neuronal and mental features and is opened up to investigate and ultimately reveal the brain's own temporo-spatial dynamics as the hitherto missing " common currency" of neuronal andmental features.

TL;DR: Several main mechanisms leading to the emergence of long transients are revealed and hence lays the basis for a unifying theory in ecology.

TL;DR: The mathematics behind Bayesian inference is derived and simulations are used to show that the formalism can reproduce experimental, top-down manipulations of complex morphogenesis and rescue mis-patterning of developmental and regenerative events.

TL;DR: The history of Spatiotemporal Neuroscience is discussed and more philosophical issues like the need to dissolve the mind-body problem and replace it by the world-brain relation and the question for different levels of time including their nestedness are discussed.

TL;DR: This review addresses the chemical evolution in space, focusing - in particular - on the role played by molecular spectroscopy and quantum-chemical computations, and the evolution of chemical complexity, from small molecules to haze, in Titan's atmosphere.

TL;DR: It is reasoned that, during the very earliest history of this planet, there was a geochemical scenario that inevitably led to the existence of a large-scale factory of simple and complex organic compounds, many of which were relevant to prebiotic chemistry.

TL;DR: A theory of the basic operation of mind, Information Dynamics of Thinking, which is intended for computational implementation and thence empirical testing, and treats the mind/brain as an information processing organ that aims to be information-efficient.

TL;DR: The aim of this work is to describe the state-of-the-art in computational prebiotic chemistry, possibly useful both to theorists and experimentalists in origins of life research, and to suggest future directions and new perspectives offered by modern simulation tools.

TL;DR: This review delineates the novel notion of a synthetic connectome and aims to lay out the initial steps towards its implementation, contemplating its impact on science and society.

TL;DR: Key to this construction is the concept of a Markov blanket, defined in KFGL, §2.2.3 as the Cartesian product of the sets of “sensory” and “active” states of the cell / system.

TL;DR: In this paper, G.M.V.D. is supported by the Spanish Ministry Research Project PSI2016-75688-P (AEI/FEDER), by the EU H2020 FET Flagship Human Brain Project 785907 (HBP SGA2), by Catalan Research Group Support 2017 SGR 1545, and by the Swiss National Science Foundation (CRSII5_170873).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors acknowledge funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seven Framework Program grant agreement n∘ 340863 (JMG-R) and under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program grant agreementn∘ 646894 (MvZ).

TL;DR: Garcia-Ruiz et al. as discussed by the authors showed that the mineral world can, under certain conditions, approximate some of the behaviours we associate with living things, and that this distinction may have once been very much blurred.