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The argument you present is also a tautology on the prexisting label on the bounds of a "flower" (note the error is in the context you are using the quote, the
by blamestross 5y ago
The argument you present is also a tautology on the prexisting label on the bounds of a "flower" (note the error is in the context you are using the quote, the quote is awesome)
Faced with a field of flowers the technology to examine them in detail and without existing schema to bias, it is unlikely a flower in isolation could be considered a single organism, thier roots meld and many organisms require each other for metabolic and reproductive processes to succeed, it seem most likely to consider the he entire field a single organism in the sense you are reaching for.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoIn both of your comments, you mention communities: a group of termites living in the earth and a field of flowers. Why?
- blamestross 5y agoBecause they are accessible examples of things that many people have been enculturated to perceive as communities that are more reasonably interpreted as single organisms. The logic that would lead to thier classification as a "community" if applied evenly would force us to consider every multicellular organism a "community".