Society vs Culture is a good place to apply our analytical knife. I'll agree that animals don't really exhibit culture. But then I believe that culture implies or contains aspects of intellectuality which I think is unique to humans.
At the same time, there is a big difference between biological self-preservation, and altruistic behavior when animals bond and sacrifice energy or life in defense of the herd or offspring. Sociality plainly exists. To say it's all irrelevant because it's just biologically programmed behavior, seems as facile as saying it's all irrelevant because everything is just random inorganic reactions. The patterns of sociality are demonstrably real and obviously transcendant of mere biology. EO Wilson's, Sociobiology was a fascinating read for me, just after high school. So if we're gonna divide up reality according to patterns, we have to have a place in which to fit social behavior. Adding Culture as a half-way point between social and intellectual seems kinda kludgy to me. Culture I think should be defined as "those intellectually derived patterns that are accepted by the society". SQ intellectual patterns, if you will. John the unconvinced(ing) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
