Paper: Analyzing Manipulation in Biological Systems via Cross-Scale Control Theory
drmichaellevin · x · 2026-08-05
A new paper by Evgeniya Shmeleva et al. explores how biological systems are manipulated by self-defecting agents (like cancer) or foreign agents (like pathogens).
Synthesizing evidence across immunology, developmental biology, and neuroscience, the review treats this manipulation as a staged control problem. The authors outline a six-step framework detailing how manipulators establish access, interfere with identity checks, and exploit shared signaling to convert local access into distributed, system-wide effects.
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