Six features of organisms

Iain McGilchrist suggests in his book The Matter with Things that there are broadly six features that stand out in the description of organisms in contradiction to the metaphor of the machine.

They are references to

1. actively co-ordinated processes,
   expressing a sense of
2. wholeness,
   inextrictably linked with
3. values,
4. meaning and
5. purpose,
   leading to
6. self-realization.