Natural chemical assimilation
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The bodies of plants, animals, bacteria, and viruses are usually continuously exchanging matter in the form of chemicals like oxygen and carbon dioxide molecules with the external world. Yet they usually maintain the structure and functioning of the body in the process. This is natural chemical assimilation. Biological assimilation is chemical assimilation plus larger sizes of matter types of assimilation like when a white blood cell eats a bacteria or when a person gets an infusion of blood during an operation. It is different from the supernatural assimilation proposed by philosophers to maintain the singular self also known as philosophical assimilation.