eixam
means swarm in Catalan
A swarm is not merely the analog of an organism, it is indeed an organism, in every important and scientific sense of the word.
A swarm is made up of effectively autonomous members.

Like a cell or a person, it behaves as a unitary whole, maintaining its identity in space, resisting dissolution; neither a thing nor a concept, but a continual flux or process.

A swarm is an organism whose existence in both time and space outreaches the individual member.  The individual has no awareness of the swarm as a whole.

- loose quotations from from Kevin Kelly and William Morton Wheeler
     
 

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