"Even though anallytically dissecting the organic wholeness of a living system doesn't remove anything from the material components of life, it nevertheless segregates the whole into parts. This provides a powerful tool for breaking up the work involved in the exploration of the complex system that is an organism, yet it also precisely brackets from analysis what is most relevant: the 'organic wholeness'. The life of an organism is not resident in its parts. It is embodied in the global organization of the living processes - the individual molecules, organelles, cells, tissue types, and organs - are not parts in the sense that machine parts are.

Organisms aren't composed by assembling independently produced and grouped parts. What we interpret as parts are in most cases the consequence of differentiation processes in which structural discontinuities and functional modularization emerged from a prior, less-differentiated state, whether in evolution or development."

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