The Information Bottleneck of Life: Geometry, Entropy, and Topology in Biological Systems
A masterclass-style synthesis arguing that biological function and disease emerge from geometric constraints on information flow. Integrates spectral graph theory, curvature, entropy, graph signal processing, and persistent homology to frame life as a navigable manifold shaped by evolution and thermodynamics.
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