[lit-ideas] organism-slash-environment

by the way, what is an "enviornoment"? 

MW 11th gives us

en-vi-ron-ment

1 : the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded
2 a : the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival b : the aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an individual or community
3 : the position or characteristic position of a linguistic element in a sequence
4 : a computer interface from which various tasks can be performed *a programming environment*
synonyms see BACKGROUND


Something Alan Watts wrote sticks in mind:

Isn't it more correct to refer to a biological entity as an organism/environment? There are no organisms without environments. They are the same process.

What is the philosophical objection to that?



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