Random Biology Thoughts Thread

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

We are really nothing more than a collection of individual organisms all working in concert with each other (for the most part)?

So what is the self, then?

 

[The Cat]

Osmosis Jones is the truth of your existence. we are cosmic cells.

 

[ygolo]

We are really nothing more than a collection of individual organisms all working in concert with each other (for the most part)?

So what is the self, then?

The cell is also just a collection of molecules working in concert to keep itself alive. What is the entity being maintained? What is life?

 

[The Cat]

Bigger.

 

[ygolo]

The argument of excising people from the body politic, as an analogy to cells in the body, has been used for "cleansing" the body politic.

Resisting Marginalization, Exclusion, Hate Speech and Hate Crimes and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

On 26 May 2020 Deputy Executive Director Savita Pawnday spoke during the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Addressing All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination. Ms. Pawnday delivered remarks during Session III: “From Early...

www.globalr2p.org

 

[Totenkindly]

The Return of the Dire Wolf

Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.

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