Sentences with phrase «organisms as constituents»

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It also serves as a warning to us that the tension between organism and atomism, between our appreciation of the physical existence of constituents and of complex bodies, is not likely to be resolved simply by attending more closely to the details in Process and Reality, chapter and verse.

To sum up, Leclerc argues against Whitehead, as he understands him, that a complex physical organism exercises an agency proper to itself which is not simply reducible to the agency of its constituent actual entities.

Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

On such a theory, therefore, composites of various grades of complexity would have the status of being actual physical existents in their own right, and not as such «reducible» to their ultimate constituents — as in the theory of material atomism, molecules and biological organisms are reducible to the ultimate constituents.

There can still be local decreases in entropy, as happens with all living organisms while they are still alive and in some other situations as, for example, when complex organic molecules are made from their constituent atoms in outer space, as now seems to be the case.

«Although laboratory tests can predict effects in the field, care should be taken when using the lab data for 303 (d) listing if alternative field data indicate that the organisms of concern are not affected by the constituent of concern, such as pyrethroids,» said Stephen Clark, lead author of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry study.