LUCA & the Energy Bubbles

Potential hypotheses for life: thermal vents, spark (lightening), panspermia, etc.

What life means: Encapsulated potential for energy that is used for greater dispersal

• Sponges and mat grazers (Mike Paulin research).
• Fear vs gain (glutamate and calcium channels)
• Bayesian Brain Theory, The Free Energy Principle
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn2787
  • https://medium.com/@solopchuk/intuitions-on-predictive-coding-and-the-free-energy-principle-3fc5bcedc754
• Our senses, epithelial cells, and Bayesian inference as a way to predict environmental cues.
• Population ecology and the interaction between species
  • Development and social necessity