ABSTRACT
It's always a bit complicated to know where to start. There are points on the circumference of a circle and so it's a dilemma to know where to start. This is entitled "Freedom and Survival". Now, of course, in the inanimate world there is no freedom. I'm not going into the area of microphysics, but in the ordinary inanimate world there's no freedom. A stone rolls down a hill because it was pushed by something. The defining element in living things is that there is a source of action from within, and quite how that can be is again mysterious, but it is so. There is a source of action from within, more so in what I'll refer to as motile organisms like animals and so on than in what biologists refer to as sessile organisms like trees and plant life.
