Autonomy Versus Incorporation

When reading "Coleridge and the Economy of Nature," I was skeptical about a few of McKusick's arguments concerning "The Eolian Harp." McKusick states that "Coleridge became steeped in the contemporary conception of the organism as an autonomous, cyclical, and self-regulating entity," and postulates that in the 6th stanza, Coleridge is arguing that "all living creatures, no matter how ‘diversely fram'd,’ must possess an internal process of self-regulation." In my mind, this jars with his descriptions of a fluctuations in the environment around him such as “the desultory breeze,” a maid “half yielding,” and notes that “sink and rise” echoing the form of the “slope of yonder hill” that he rests upon (though these images support McKusick’s assertion that Coleridge felt humans “exist in harmony with their surrounding environment” and “that human passion incorporates the forms of nature”). I believe that in the sixth stanza, Coleridge is posing the possibility that all natural entities possess a single consciousness, an thoery which hardly grants organisms autonomy. This seems more in line with the assertion that “All natural things… exist in reciprocal relation to other things” and the idea of incorporation.