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biology

5 essays on this topic.

Papers
  1. Governing Agents the Way Cells Govern Themselves

    Six cell biology mechanisms that reveal what the networking 'control plane' metaphor misses about governing AI agents.

  2. Biology as a Design Constraint: How Cell Biology Names Generate Architecture

    Using cell biology naming not as metaphor but as engineering manual — how mTOR's biology predicted circuit breakers, autophagy, and negative feedback loops before we designed them.

  3. The Cell Biology Agent Design Manual

    Engineering metaphors give you clean abstractions. Biology gives you resilient ones. Twenty design heuristics from four billion years of R&D.

  4. The Model IS the Architecture

    How biological modelling determines system structure — not just naming, but what you build and what it can become.

  5. The Immune System of AI Autonomy

    When your AI can see its own fuel gauge, you're one config write away from self-preservation instinct. Biology solved this problem — and the solution was keeping the organism away from its own selection pressure.