living organism

cell

organism

 absorbs the chance objects in its environment, so as to foster its own growth.

A 'developed actuality' is an entity such as a living organism that absorbs the chance objects in its environment, so as to foster its own growth according to a pattern prescribed by its inner nature... a rational agent who uses whatever he encounters to fulfil a foreordained plan... or a society which converts the materials and forces in its environment into purposive structures. (inwood 1992 : 34)

living organism, n.All

living organism