Cognition all the way down.
Biology’s next great horizon is to understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones).
By Michael Levin
"The other amazing thing that happens when cells connect their internal signalling networks is that the physiological setpoints that serve as primitive goals in cellular homeostatic loops, and the measurement processes that detect deviations from the correct range, are both scaled up."
https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-understand-cells-tissues-and-organisms-as-agents-with-agendas