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This builds on the intuition that organisms are not simply living things or agents but have a life of their own: they are able to exercise some sort and degree of control over themselves and subsequently are relatively free with respect to relevant other things, including relevant other agents and environment.
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She had simply gone the way other living things go, succumbing to the frailty of biological systems.
He repeatedly expressed his distaste for the narrowness and sterility of much post-neolithic thought, and its obsession with the exploitation of other living things rather than simply reflecting on the latter's complexity and mutual relationships.
Whereas the élan vital of the vitalists was simply a factor that operated in living things to differentiate the animate from the inanimate, Smuts' vera causa operated in all matter, driving evolution ever upwards to larger and more complex new levels.
It does not mean there will not be competition but simply that every living thing matters.
All living things are made from organic matter, but simply adding energy to organic molecules will not create life.
These researchers have argued that the idea of an innate trait is simply one expression of a folkbiological theory of the 'natures' of living things.
Populations of living things evolve over time, but do other things?
Alternatively, animals and other organisms simply feed off of plants, one another, etc., to steal the energy already stored in living things.
I like living with living things.
Spores are living things.
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