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Debate 1

Proposition

"Plants have a general tendency to perform an action in ways that is consistent with their self organization."

Argument

Criteria for moral value

1. Autopoiesis
   • self-organization
   • self-maintenance
   • self-regulation
   • comprising a network of interrelated processes
   • capable of renewing itself by regulating its composition and maintenance of form
   • creating its own parts
   • homeostasis

Semantics

1. Homeostasis
   • the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements
2. Tendency
   • an propensity to a particular characteristic.

Analysis

Reductio

Criteria	Atom
Tendency	Yes
Equilibrium	Yes
Interdependent elements	Yes

1. Even atoms would qualify as having moral value.

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