Organisms are virtual entities, emergent over the activity of cells. An organism picking at its cells is engaging in downward causation, probably quite confusing to the cells if they were able to comprehend it. To a human, actions of the superorganism may appear as acts of God.
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Replying to @Plinz
Doesn't irreducibility imply intrinsic realities at different levels of organization, for example the notion of Gaia?
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Replying to @maetherial
All of them are models. All are in principle reducible to the ground truth, ie the progression of the state vector of the universe.
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