[MD] Collective intelligence

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[ARLO]
> the "self" emerges when the baby's "biological experience" intertwines with the > social patterns it experiences.
> A baby left on a deserted island not only would have no "self" (as we
> understand it) but would be wholly incapable of producing social or
> intellectual patterns. These things are ONLY enabled by the interplay between
> the emergent collective consciousness and the bodily-kinesthetic "proprietary
> awareness" of the biological agent.
What justifies the move from 1) the "self" emerges when the baby's "biological experience" intertwines with the social patterns it experiences to 2) the "self" emerges ONLY when the baby's "biological experience" intertwines with the social patterns it experiences?
Craig