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living organisms

Also known as: living organism, living things

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Structural Organization of the Human Body | Anatomy and ... courses.lumenlearning.com Lumen Learning 2 facts

claimA cell is the smallest independently functioning unit of a living organism, and all living structures of human anatomy contain cells.

claimA cell is the smallest independently functioning unit of a living organism.

Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Consciousness and the Intermediate ... frontiersin.org Frontiers in Robotics and AI Apr 17, 2018 2 facts

claimThe enactivist paradigm shifts the burden of explaining how material states become mental states onto the notion of the living organism, which the author argues is not a convincing conceptual fulcrum since vitalism has been dismissed.

quoteJohn Stewart stated: “How can a material state be a mental state? Hoary it may be, yet the problem is anything but solved. […] The paradigm of enaction solves this problem by grounding all cognition as an essential feature of living organism” (Stewart, 2010, p. 1).

Ecology: Nature's Interactions and Ecosystem Dynamics scholarsresearchlibrary.com Lorelei Simmons · Annals of Biological Research 2 facts

claimEcology is defined as the branch of biology that studies the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

claimElements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus move between living organisms and the environment in cycles regulated by biological, chemical, and physical processes.

Plantae kingdom (Honors) - KaiserScience kaiserscience.wordpress.com KaiserScience 1 fact

claimChanges over time in the anatomical features observable in the fossil record allow scientists to infer lines of evolutionary descent by linking extinct organisms to living organisms through a series of fossilized organisms that share a basic set of anatomical features.

Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy May 23, 2001 1 fact

claimThe argument that wings are a complex configuration of matter is based on the possibilities implicit in the physics of the DNA-based phylogeny of all living things.

The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org Cambridge University Press Mar 31, 2023 1 fact

claimTudor Baetu concludes that David Chalmers fails to identify a unique property of consciousness that would allow one to infer, prior to further scientific investigation, that consciousness will remain an unexplainable phenomenological surplus beyond a mechanistic understanding of living organisms.

What is Bioelectric Phenomena ? - YouTube youtube.com YouTube Jan 17, 2026 1 fact

claimBioelectric phenomena refers to the electrical processes occurring within living organisms.

Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective longnow.org The Long Now Foundation Aug 27, 2025 1 fact

claimJohn von Neumann investigated how to reconcile the existence of living organisms with a physical, mechanical universe.

[PDF] Bioelectrical understanding and engineering of cell biology ora.ox.ac.uk Oxford University Research Archive 1 fact

claimBioelectricity contributes to organization, morphogenesis, and regeneration in living organisms, according to the document 'Bioelectrical understanding and engineering of cell biology'.

Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 18, 2017 1 fact

claimThomas Nagel's argument for panpsychism relies on four premises: Material Composition (living organisms are complex material systems with no immaterial parts), Realism (mental states are genuine properties of living organisms), No Radical Emergence (all properties of a complex organism are intelligibly derived from the properties of its parts), and Non-Reductionism (mental states are not intelligibly derived from physical properties alone).