A beautiful idea about pregnancy
There's something really beautiful about this idea (that builds on the notion that "we" are not static things; we are ever-changing processes).
How many individuals are present where we see a pregnant individual?
From the perspective of organisms as "things", the answer is 1 or 2 (and society debates a lot about when that line is crossed).
Here I propose a third answer: a pregnant individual is neither two individuals nor one individual but something in between one and two. This is because organisms are better understood as processes than as substances. With a special focus on the Parthood View, I explain why a Process View of pregnancy, according to which a pregnant individual is a bifurcating hypercomplex process, surpasses the substance ontological approaches.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-021-01716-y
H/T to npub1a7mgdv59qdx5p2ajp7y0wk3e7y4sw05kquew8nkw06gv99zaz5sspgj0p9 (npub1a7m…j0p9) for pointing me to Anne Sophie Meincke's work:
https://www.annesophiemeincke.com/philosophy
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