The biologist must take due account of both tendencies in every instance, and it is therefore useless to ask him for a definition of individuality that shall fit all cases and work automatically. But too often one reasons about the things of life in the same way as about the conditions of crude matter. Nowhere is the confusion so evident as in discussions about individuality. Bergson restarts his footnote counts on each page. So to refer a footnote, one must state page number and footnote number.
SOMites consider reproduction to mean perfect, cloned duplication of an existing object.
MoQites see reproduction as empirical evolutionary extension of actuality. Latter requires fractal recursion of self. However, we must consider how to apply that method at each stage of a product's life cycle. As classical SOMites we may think of a traditional formal, mechanistic approach at each step. A similar approach can be taken in each product's unique maintenance evolution.