[MD] Individual v Collective

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[ARLO]
> The trouble is, that because we are part of the collective activity that gives 
> rise to intellectual patterns we think we "own" them. In the same way the cell 
> must feel it "owns" the body.

I don't know anyone who thinks they own the word or concept of 'pet' or 'rock', but the first person to think of a pet rock had something no one else had.  As an aside, if you have a cell that feels it owns your body, it suffers from a unique form of meglomania.
Craig