A host organism plus it's associated microorganisms. For example; humans are holobionts that are hosts to microbial beings. > *If other beings of countless species and type—from our local watershed, to the apex predators in our bioregion, to the bacteria in our gut—make us who we are (and also very literally live inside of us), where is the control, the “freedom,” in that?* - [[Beyond The Human]] ## Sources: - [[Beyond The Human]]