Michael Levin basically studies how cells communicatie and collaborate with each other. But his discoveries are also very important for other disciplines like cognitive science, developmental biology, AI, evolutional biology, engineering, cancer treatment and more. It also raises some profound philosophical and ethical questions.

Joe Henrich explains that humans are primarily cultural animals. Of course we are also social animals and pretty smart animals, but the reason of our success is our capacity for social learning which enables an explosive Cumulative Cultural Evolution.

The Free Energy Principle originally emerged from systems neurosciences as a way, a principled way, of understanding what the brain does and how it does it. Subsequently, the principles proved to be so simple and so powerful that they have been applied in a variety of contexts. So one could almost regard the free energy principle as an organizing principle for any living system that shows the characteristics of life.