# Membranics A method for separating the internal and external interests of a sociont or another life form. A functioning membranics sees to it that nourishment comes in through, and that feces is pressed out through the membrane in question. Membranics can also be used as a concept to comprehend the radical difference between extension-neutral membranes within subphysics. We refer to this form of virtual relationalism as *subphysical membranics*.