Oh, it’s ok. Turns out some dead guy said that they are animals, but they (bacteria) are no longer considered animals. So my point doesn’t stand.
In 1874, Ernst Haeckel divided the animal kingdom into the multicellular Metazoa (now synonymous with Animalia) and the Protozoa, single-celled organisms no longer considered animals.
Seriously though, I have swam with these jellyfish as a kid, threw a couple back in from the shallow water the other day, and I have never heard them say anything malicious or sorrowful.
I would contend that all the cells that evolved to eventually create “multicellular” animals like us, do not have a malicious or sorrowful “instinctual passion “ , or anything close to it.
Reacting and otherwise knowing what you can and can’t eat, and what may want to eat you is the basis of being alive.
Have you eaten chicken lately? Did you kill it yourself? Do you eat food at all?
These scientific type statements on the AFT do my head in; a jellyfish is closer to a tree or mushroom that to me.
My point was that the cells in my body live without ‘my’ input. Indeed, I am alive often despite ‘my’ input. That was the point. ‘I’ am redundant to the survival of my cells. Just as that already selfless jellyfish, and that tree, and most creatures, apart from a few higher mammals, which display malice and sorrow.