When cognition scales, matter wakes up.
— vitrupo (@vitrupo) October 29, 2025
Michael Levin says every system that learns to pursue goals has a “cognitive lightcone,” the slice of reality it can care about.
A bacterium tracks sugar. A human plans for centuries.
Life is matter expanding what it can care about. pic.twitter.com/h63wvlPM72
Category: Animals and Evolution
About Animals, Eolution and Dinosaurs
How AI Could Create Life Itself
Great Filters
When Evolution Glitches Out – Beer Bottles
The Oldest Living Thing was Trapped for 2 Billion Years
Protein Folding
Microbes vs. Mars: A Hacker’s Guide to Finding Alien Life
The Ancestor Paradox
Biological evolution: writing, rewriting and breaking the program of life
Hobbits Were Real. Why Were They So Small?
The Species That Broke Evolution?
Do We Have to Die?
Animals Might Be Much Older Than We Thought
Silurian Hypothesis
Ancient Life
The Mystery Tool
The Single Celled Dog
I heard you like viruses so I put a virus in your virus….
sounds pleasant
Salamander
From Single Cell to Salamander ( Time-Lapse )
The Cat That Ate an Entire Species
cute little kitty committing genocide
Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects
The Age of Giant Insects
Nope, nope, nope, nope ……