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Biomolecular condensates and the binding problem

Cellular decision-making mediated by active sensing of the extra-cellular world

Cognition all the way up?

Developing measures of purpose - platelets, calcium signaling, and model predictive control

Direction, agency and function in the evolution of symbiotic integration

Does Earth’s habitability for life exist due to or in spite of Darwinian evolution by natural selection?

Mistakes in action: From the normativity of goal-directedness to novel investigations of avian nest construction

Predictive evo-devo: From theory to an empirical framework to model the origin of variation with implications for predicting evolution

The emergence and evolution of goal-directed behavior in collective entities

Transposable genetic elements as ecological agents

Using material models to investigate agency, innovation, and directionality in evolution

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