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Sonia's 'Mind-Walk Take-Home Mid-Tem'
oseph William Watson
Andrew Short
PHIL 3020
November, 2010

Mind-Walk Take-Home Mid-Term

Question #1 According to Sonia, “life is simply self-organization”. She explains why “life is self-organization” in three different categories .The first category in Sonia’s self-organization theory is self-maintaining. Self-maintaining basically states that life depends on many different things, however it doesn’t determines the things it wants. One example that is related is based on our environment. Our environment relay on many things to be sustainable, however it can’t determine things that are highly important. Look at plants; they are force to rely on water, soil and sun to help survive. We in the other hand, rely on plants for both air

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