 Note that mechanisms, on this view, are contained within cells and that it is cells, not mechanisms that are autonomous. What becomes crucial for understanding the autonomy of cells is the organization of control mechanisms that orchestrate the activities of various productive mechanisms so as to maintain the cell (or the multicellular organism). One notable feature of this focus on the organization needed to maintain autonomy is that it is compatible with the more traditional philosophical accounts of mechanism (discussed in  section 5)  but emphasizes a feature not prominent in them—that production mechanisms are subject to control mechanisms. To understand the behavior of cellular mechanisms, researchers must not only look inside mechanisms to their organized parts and operations but outside to how they are situated in cells and organisms in such a way that they can be controlled by other mechanisms (Winning &amp; Bechtel 2018; Bechtel in press). Such an ontological framework for understanding cells (as well as multicellular organisms) integrates insights from traditional mechanists in biology and their vitalist/organicist/holist critics, capturing what is distinctive of living organisms within a framework that accepts them as consisting of mechanisms, but mechanisms organized in appropriate ways.