smith: organisms as persisters
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Peter Godfrey-Smith views organisms as things that persist; he says that “organisms are
essentially persisters” (2013, 25). This conception of the organism is central to the picture that
I will develop here. I think that his view is useful, but I think that more is needed. If organisms
are essentially persisters, then to understand what this comes to, it is necessary to examine
the general conditions for their persistence. By taking persistence as the explanatory basis for
what organisms are, one can then enquire into those factors that facilitate persistence and hence
organismality.
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