organisms
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Many plants and basic organisms can sense things in their environments and change their behaviors accordingly, but this does not require them to have an awareness of their selves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
For Mr. Damasio, “consciousness is a biological process that allows organisms equipped with a nervous system to discover their own existence and the existence of a surrounding universe.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"The fact that we could never get these organisms into pure culture is probably because they always depend on other organisms to survive," he says.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
The researchers could not grow the organisms on their own, and A/Prof. Burns says that difficulty may itself reveal something important about their biology.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
The gene, Morgan realized, solves one problem—the transmission of heredity—but creates another: the development of organisms.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
