Loet, your criticism is very accurate, thanks. But I really think, as said Jorge, that our sociality has to have a fairly stable structure, that is to say, lower and upper limits that "feed" our mental wellbeing. It's not fixed, of course, but individuals become integral embodiments of emotions, and most of the active components of these emotions reside in our social environment. Evolutionarily we have developed this social dependence, and therefore the absence of such bonds, or the feeling of not having them, is devastating to our health --both physical and mental, as emphasized by numerous studies.
Dear Raquel: Expectations of social structure are extremely stable without materialization. For example, the expectation of the rule of law. These are anchored/reflected in codes of communications. One does not have to appeal to a "global brain". It seems a mystification to me. Of course, the social expectations when codified leave footprints behind in the form of institutions. For example, courts and parliaments as places where one enacts the rule of law. Best, Loet
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