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    The claim locates the distinctive feature of life in comp... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A live object has a distinctive sort of control over whether things come to be, or cease to be, part of it.

    The claim locates the distinctive feature of life in compositional control, but this conflates the causal mechanism (what does the controlling) with the organizational closure that defines life.

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    Compositional control(as used in philosophy of biology)
    The idea that something is alive because it can actively direct or manage how its parts are organized and arranged.
    Conflate(the criticism being made in the statement)
    To mistakenly treat two different things as if they were the same thing.
    Organizational closure(as used in philosophy of biology and systems theory)
    A self-contained system where the parts work together to maintain and reproduce the whole, without needing outside help to stay organized.
    causal mechanism(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of causation)
    The process or chain of cause-and-effect by which one thing makes another thing happen.

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