- Debate on the nature of instinct: participants contrasted “hard-coded” neural firmware with simpler sensory biases plus environmental scaffolding, using beaver dam-building and foal walking as case studies.  
- A YouTube talk on information geometry and hexapod locomotion (https://youtube.com/watch?v=m3QbaIdJ-xs, ~46:20) was offered as evidence that complex behaviors can emerge from body dynamics without elaborate innate programs.  
- Discussion of longevity evidence: the channel noted the absence of 120-year RCTs and asked for a concise, non-commercial “personal longevity roadmap” summarizing proven interventions.  
- FEniCS (https://fenicsproject.org/) was recommended as a powerful open-source PDE solver for simulations in biology and physics.  
- Shaowei Lin’s derivation of an online learning algorithm for mutable processes was shared, including blog post (https://shaoweilin.github.io/posts/2021-03-23-biased-stochastic-approximation-with-mutable-processes/) and slides (https://shaoweilin.github.io/public/20231211-imsi.pdf), with emphasis on convergence proofs for spiking-neural-net applications.  
- A Substack post on DIY human cloning (https://auren.substack.com/p/you-too-can-be-the-proud-parent-of) and an accompanying video (https://youtube.com/watch?v=-l9m-7_MdWM) sparked commentary on stalled progress in consumer reproductive biotech.