Cognition all the way down

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https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-understand-cells-tissues-and-organisms-as-agents-with-agendas

Biologists like to think of themselves as properly scientific behaviourists, explaining and predicting the ways that proteins, organelles, cells, plants, animals and whole biota behave under various conditions, thanks to the smaller parts of which they are composed.