[jas3]

"An acorn is a seed and has the oak tree within it."

That is quite wrong. An acorn is a seed that has a seed within it.

An acorn contains a small amount of energy and the information required to convert energy CO2 and H2O into a actual tree. But it is most certainly NOT a tree yet. And very likely it will never become a tree.

You've confused the term "embryonic plant" with the term "tree".

jas3

[syriacus]

The embryonic plant is the tree

[syriacus]

An acorn is a seed that has a seed within it.

Not if it is germinating...and you are comparing the acorn to a blastosphere, so your acorn must be germinating.

jas3 wrote

Well, we can agree that a blastosphere has the potential to become a human in the same sense that an acorn can become an oak tree (but is not yet an oak tree),