>[!abstract] >The view that life has some animating entity (along the lines of spirit) that animates matter into a living being. A form of [[Biochauvinism|biochauvinism]]. ("Philosophy of Biomedicine", 2024). ## References - Philosophy of Biomedicine. (2024, December 29). In *Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy*. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biomedicine/ ## Related - [[Biochauvinism]]