Cohesiveness is not an adequate theory of general individuation and it does not account for living individuals

Abstract

Villalobos and Razeto-Barry propose a theory of living individuals that includes both considerations about autopoietic systems and about material individuals. However, I think that their characterisation of individuality is problematic and would not be useful to account for living individuals.

Keywords

individual bodies autopoiesis

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(1967). What is Life? and Mind and Matter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.