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is nursing at the body's veins like infants at the breast; the body's blood serves as the cellular milk.

Our organs nurse at our veins like infants at the breast. Blood is cellular milk. In fact, child, adult, or aged, whether we suck, chew, or gulp our mixture, our entire life on earth is a physiological sucking at the bottle of ourselves. Organically we are our own mother-and-child; and in the infinity of things, in Absolute Allness, we suckle God.

is not a present-at-hand piece of physical material, but neither are they ready-to-hand items of equipment. Instead, organs exist only in life. There is an inner drive in the organism, unlike in hammers, which have no urge to do their hammering.

Heidegger cites the example of an amoeba, which is able to form and reabsorb its own organs on the spur of the moment in response to specific needs. An amoeba is able to do this because the capacity comes from the amoeba itself, and the organs are improvised to fit that capacity. Organs are not present-at-hand pieces of physical material, but neither are they ready-to-hand items of equipment. Instead, organs exist only in life. There is an inner drive in the organism, unlike in hammers, which have no urge to do their hammering.

is not serviceable to an organism like a tool, but rather subservient to it; arising from a capacity lying in the organism itself.

Here, Heidegger agrees with Aristotle’s remark that what hears, smells, and tastes is the soul (whatever it may be), not the ears, nose, or tongue. Tools are serviceable, in the sense that we can grab any pen off any table and use it. This is not true of organs: we need our own eyes and ears to sense anything. If we someday receive an organ transplant, this simply means that we are making the new organ our own. Organs are not serviceable for the organism, but subservient to it. What makes the organs subservient is that they arise from a capacity lying in the organism itself.

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