The fact that we don't know whether to consider a virus as "alive" or "non-living dynamic thingamabob" pretty much shreds that notion of atomic organisms. Ther

The fact that we don't know whether to consider a virus as "alive" or "non-living dynamic thingamabob" pretty much shreds that notion of atomic organisms. There is no Platonic ideal of the word "superorganism" to worry about here. There's Aspens[0] and Ants[1] alike, and plenty in between. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggers