The boundary of an organism is defined by cooperation
An organism is a living system maintaining both a higher level of internal cooperation and a lower level of internal conflict than either its components or any larger systems of which it is a component. Fields, Levin, 2018, " Are Planaria…
Sep 26, 20211 min read
An organism is a living system maintaining both a higher level of internal cooperation and a lower level of internal conflict than either its components or any larger systems of which it is a component.
Fields, Levin, 2018, "Are Planaria Individuals? What Regenerative Biology is Telling Us About the Nature of Multicellularity".
This is a good definition for an [[agent]].
[[Evolution]]
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