caa a22 4500 605448256 CHVBK 20210128100136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-015-9484-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-015-9484-0 Multicellular agency: an organizational view [Elektronische Daten] [Argyris Arnellos, Alvaro Moreno] We argue that the transition from unicellular to multicellular (MC) systems raises important conceptual challenges for understanding agency. We compare several MC systems (from bacterial swarms to colonies and plants, and to lower metazoans) displaying different forms of collective behavior, and we analyze whether these actions can be considered organismically integrated and attributable to the whole. We distinguish between a ‘constitutive' and an ‘interactive' dimension of organizational complexity, and we argue that MC agency requires a radical entanglement between the related processes which we call "the constitutive-interactive closure principle”. We explain in detail that this is not possible without a regulatory center functionally integrating the two dimensions, and we also argue that, in turn, this type of regulation would not be possible without a special type of organization between the cells required for the development and maintenance of systems capable of integrated behavior. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Agency nationallicence Organization nationallicence Constitutive and interactive dimension nationallicence Multicellularity nationallicence Regulatory center nationallicence Behavior nationallicence Development nationallicence Epithelium nationallicence Closure nationallicence Arnellos Argyris The KLI Institute, Martinstraße 12, 3400, Klosterneuburg, Austria aut Moreno Alvaro IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind and Society, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, Avda. Tolosa 70, 20018, Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain aut Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/3(2015-05-01), 333-357 0169-3867 30:3<333 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9484-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9484-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Arnellos Argyris The KLI Institute, Martinstraße 12, 3400, Klosterneuburg, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Moreno Alvaro IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind and Society, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, Avda. Tolosa 70, 20018, Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/3(2015-05-01), 333-357 0169-3867 30:3<333 2015 30 10539