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Diachronic Identity in Complex Life Cycles: An Organizational Perspective

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What does it mean to be the same organism over time? This chapter develops an understanding of diachronic identity of organisms from an organizational perspective. We argue that a necessary condition for diachronic identity is organizational continuity, i.e., the presence of a continuous causal process linking successive organizational regimes, irrespective of material and functional changes. Organizational continuity is not a sufficient condition, however, because it cannot discriminate between the development of the same individual and the reproduction of a new individual. We therefore suggest that there are temporal boundaries of identity when there are changes in the number of continuous organized systems, which occurs through fission, fusion, or a combination of the two. We discuss the utility of the resulting organizational view, as well as its relations with other approaches to biological individuality.
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hal-02189255 , version 1 (19-07-2019)

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James Difrisco, Matteo Mossio. Diachronic Identity in Complex Life Cycles: An Organizational Perspective. Meincke, A. S. & Dupré, J. (eds.):. Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology, (History and Philosophy of Biology),, Routledge, In press. ⟨hal-02189255⟩
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