>The
>humans in a living generation are connected to a much larger segment of the
>dead generations of their species than ants or bees, humans are connected
>extra-somatically or non-genetically that is.
I like extra-somatically here much better than non-genetically. But OK.
>Today, we are also connected to a much larger proportion
>of the living generation of our species. This is the significance of the
>enormouslysocial production and communication of today (world cars and
>all).
I wonder to what extent this is illusion (culture/communciation) and artifacts of
very specific and unsustainable economics and exploitation of ressources
(world cars and stuff). But anyway, sure there's a difference with animals here.
>A hive of bees has no connection with the many other hives of its species.
Well, I did hear about interconnected ant-hives (what's the proper English
word?) over a very large territory compared to the size of an ant. I suppose
that if we were not cutting their habitat into small pieces and destroying it, those
territories could be way larger.
>So, there is
>an anticipatory social connection prospective in time as well.
Right, and in social animals this behaviour could well be grounded only in
evolutionary-generated somatic processes.
>In a word sociality-communism is the unique human characteristic.
Until now I agreed. But there seems to be quite a leap between the
argumentation and this conslusion. Maybe I don't understand the precise
meaning of "sociality-communism".
>CB: As I say above, the clearest qualitative difference of humans is the vast
>network of connections to dead generations of the species. Most of the
>language we speak, the vast knowledge of techniques and otherwise, the
>arts, literature was founded by people who are now dead.
As far as language and techniques are concerned, there are scattered
factoids that even inferior animals are capable of doing what you say. But the
extent of these behaviours are clearly very different in humans vs. animals.
>Of course, selfishness does arise among humans , individual and group
>selfishness, selfish leaders. But what I am saying is that these phenomena
>go against the main human advantage , which is to treasure
>interdependence of humans,
What's the contradiction between selfishness and interdependence? Here it
looks as if I missed something big.
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