[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Magnus]
> The ant is a social pattern.  Biological patterns are senses - taste, smell, 
> touch - the senses by which the social pattern holds the parts of the ant 
> together...An ant is [not] a biological pattern.

The Argument from Social Construct: Ants are a social construct.  There is
nothing "in nature" which forces us to classify ants & termites, for instance,
separately.  Doing so is a pragmatic decision, made within language, which
is a social pattern.
The trouble with this argument is that it makes everything for which there is a
concept/word into a social pattern.
The levels, however, are not populated by words/concepts, but by what words/
concepts apply to.  IMHO everything about ants above the inorganic level is
biological: the ant's body, its perceptual abilities, its growth, its healing, its
locomotion, its reproduction, etc.
Craig