Posted by Jimmc414 4 days ago
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-...
Preprint of paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.02.662771v1
His work around intelligence is amazing. Cellular systems and organs have intelligence capabilities far beyond the individual cells. A lot of it shows that humans can be very blind to intelligence.
His flatworm experiments are a good place to start as he followed through with things they ignored in the experiments 80 some years ago.
If you've never seen it I HIGHLY recommend it if only to show how weird our brains actually are.
A good chaser to the above is Peter Watts talk on hive minds [1]. He was a neurology research and the author of the famous sci-fi novel Blindgsight [2]
0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8&vl=en
It also could be one of the most terrifying talks I’ve ever heard, but since it is eight years old, I am going to just pretend all of the research he mentions fell through and I have nothing worry about.