Identification of brain-like complex information architectures in embryonic tissue of Xenopus laevis organoids

tissue (known as "basal Xenobots"). These similarities suggest that such patterns of activity either arose independently in these two systems (epithelial constructs and brains); are epiphenomenological byproducts of other dynamics conserved across vastly different configurations of life; or somehow directly support adaptive behavior across diverse living systems. Finally, these results provide unambiguous support for the hypothesis that, despite their apparent simplicity as collections of non-neural epithelial cells, Xenobots are in fact integrated, complex systems in their own right, with sophisticated internal information structures.