 So one way in which the traditional focus on organisms can hinder us in thinking about biological individuals is if, by equating the two, there is too little attention focused on biological individuals that are not organisms. But hindrance here could take a different form, as some have argued. One might think that a focus on organisms, particularly those identified at the ground level of common sense, commits not just this kind of error of omission, but also proves positively misleading about what biological individuals are. Consider two positions that challenge the privileging of organisms in discussions of The Focal Question: