Feedback Loop Biology

​About the speaker

​George Hosu is an independent neurobiology researcher with a background in applied automatic machine learning, he's been a nomad working in the tech for 8 years. George writes Cerebralab.

​The talk

​The human body works by making use of feedback loops, at many levels.

​Indeed, the human body can be seen as a bootstrapped (by another human body) feedback loop with a primary directive of maintaining itself the same.

​Persistence aside, most processes in biology have feedback loops at many level, be those moving, falling asleep, gaining wakefulness, healing a wound or taking a breath.

​No process we have observed in any biological organism lacks this feedback loop nature

​Our approach to understanding and modifying biology must necessarily start incorporating feedback loops in order to go from Aristotelian observation to true scientific hypothesis testing.

​The talk will discuss why the ontology of biological study needs to switch to understanding any and all interventions as part of a feedback mechanism.

​Schedule

​7:30 PM: the doors open
8:00 PM: the 20 minutes talk
8:25 PM till late: Q&A and socialising