I think Michael Levin's work on bioelectricity fits, for basically introducing a new paradigm with which to answer the question >why is this cell doing things

I think Michael Levin's work on bioelectricity fits, for basically introducing a new paradigm with which to answer the question >why is this cell doing things that maximised the comparative fitness of its genes in a wildly different environment, features of which I am not even aware of let alone able to manipulate, and not what I want it to do