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The amoeba has a chef’s hat, this goes deeper.
What's deeper than a single-celled organism? A virus? And what if the virus has a chef's hat?
Helium atom
Helium atom hat has subatomic particles in it, sub atomic particles hat has quarks in it, quarks hat has the higgs boson in it, the higgs boson hat has nothing in it, the nothing is wearing a hat with the whole universe in it
Tinyverse all the way down.
Oh fuckkkk!
It's hats all the way down
and then a single proton and then a quark
Some Plank length motherfucker spicing everything up, in the end.
And deep within the plank length motherfucker is some exotic energy field with the beginnings of an inflation bubble
Assuming we're sticking to some kind of physical realism, either the art of cooking can fit in a virus capsid, or it's encoded into the larger laws of physics somehow. I don't think there's anything in between that could possibly respond in a complex-but-controlled way.
Edit: Although come to think of it, there should probably be more layers after roach. Maybe fruit fly next; that's an awfully big tardigrade and one of the larger protists, and as a result a normal-sized bacteria would probably fit quite comfortably on top.
A single psilocin molecule.