On instructing cells to grow into differentiated bodies. This notebook has been resurrected from the trash bin years after I deleted it because of my great enjoyment of Mordvintsev et al. (2020) on differentiable cellular automata
1 Differentiable Cellular Automata
See learning automata.
2 Actual Biologically-Plausible Morphogenesis
I know nothing of that.
3 References
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