Inherency in evolution (Ep 102)
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The Organizational Closure of Organisms
Kam and I have been talking about whether organisms are in scare quotes special as a level of biological organization. Kam: Do you think communities and populations do that? You started to speak about that with the hybridization example, but but if they don't do that, does it mean that organisms are this kind of special level organization? So let me just say that what you quoted my saying that that's not the organizational closure comes from the philosophical work of our own Moreno and his colleagues. And it's called the organizational approach. It actually goes back to the philosopher Emmanuel Kant, who talked about organisms as natural purposes.
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