3 papers
cs.ET2026
Embodied Neurocomputation: A Framework for Interfacing Biological Neural Cultures with Scaled Task-Driven Validation
Johnson Zhou, Daniel Tanneberg, Forough Habibollahi +12
Biological neural networks (BNNs) have been established as a powerful and adaptive substrate that offer the potential for incredibly energy and data efficient information processin…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Multiscale complexity of two-dimensional Ising systems with short-range, ferromagnetic interactions
Ibrahim Al-Azki, Valentina Baccetti
Complex systems exhibit macroscopic behaviors that emerge from the coordinated interactions of their individual components. Understanding the microscopic origins of these emergent…
q-bio.NC2026
A Quantifiable Information-Processing Hierarchy Provides a Necessary Condition for Detecting Agency
Brett J. Kagan, Valentina Baccetti, Brian D. Earp +3
As intelligent systems are developed across diverse substrates - from machine learning models and neuromorphic hardware to in vitro neural cultures - understanding what gives a sys…