4. The baggage of the term "individual" has been shed, to an extent, by renaming it "singularity". A singularity is irreducible and not divisible except in the sense that a human body or mind can be divided (rendering parts that are something other than a single human being--in some sense, "individual" human beings are collectives, in that they are collections). This is basic to every being, from molecules to humans to solar systems. Singularity means that a being is irreducible to its parts or a more general category. Also intrinsic to each singularity is its singular position in context. Without my language, my DNA, my political situation or oxygen, I do not exist as me.