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According to [[Steven Shaviro]], slime creatures in fiction often take the form of either a single organism (like a [[unicellular organism]]) or a [[superorganism]], "both of which cannot grasp its complex nature." Additionally, slimes lack the differentiation of organs and tissues that are characteristic of multicellular life. In this difference, slimes are "a collective without individuals, without any specialized parts, and without any sort of articulated (or hierarchical) structure." Marijeta Bradić writes that the motif of slimes in fiction "serves as a tool for questioning the idea of human exceptionalism."<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Bradić |first=Marijeta |date=2019 |title=Towards a Poetics of Weird Biology: Strange Lives of Nonhuman Organisms in Literature |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=836364 |journal=Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture |language=English |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=1–22 |issn=2416-111X}}</ref>