Discussion w/ Kevin MItchell, Nick Cheney, & Ben Hartl on evolution, development, generative models 

This is a ~1 hour discussion with Kevin Mitchell (www.kjmitchell..., Nick Cheney (www.uvm.edu/ce..., and Ben Hartl (allencenter.tu...) on the application of connectionist generative models in understanding the role of the genome in evolution and the control of form and function. Links to relevant materials mentioned in the discussion:
Nick and Kevin's recent paper preprint: arxiv.org/abs/...
Kevin's recent book: press.princeto...
Levin lab papers on this topic: www.mdpi.com/1..., link.springer.... , and rsif.royalsocie...
Yuri Alon's lab: www.weizmann.a...
Andreas Wagner: sites.google.c...
Fernando Rosas: scholar.google...
A few papers mentioned on the topic of evolution over agential materials: www.mdpi.com/1... , www.mdpi.com/1... , aeon.co/essays...