John Carpenter’s “Planaria”: Or, the New Individualism
This resonates heavily with me. It&#x27;s an intuitively interesting idea. I do have one issue though (emphasis mine):<p>&quot;a living system maintaining both a higher level of internal cooperation and a lower level of internal conflict than either its components or <i>any</i> larger systems of which it is a component.&quot;<p>So say there exists some form of higher-level individual that where we can be considered as components. Does its existence suddenly revoke our individual-ness? I don&#x27;t see why that should be, why it has to be exclusive. The flatworm and the neoblasts can be individuals at the same time.<p>...But then the definition is meaningless. It&#x27;d be great to make it weaker without breaking it, so to say