No one's mentioned Michael Levin's work yet? Surprising.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2022.7682...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.0268...

https://tbiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12976-01...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29148257/