[MD] Levels?
Krimel
Krimel at Krimel.com
Wed Jul 23 07:27:45 PDT 2008
[Krimel]
> Social organization or the mutual interdependence of individual members of
> a species is an evolutionary strategy employed by many species in nature.
> From coral to ants and bees up through primates many organisms owe their
> survival to mutual support, division of labor and cooperative behavior.
> Pirsig chose to specifically exclude all of this and include only humans
> at the social level.
[Craig]
Yes, that's why a primate "troop leader" is biological, but a calvary troop
leader is social.
[Krimel]
Obviously I think that both are social and the only way to conclude
otherwise is to adopt a taxonomic system that ignores the structure,
function, origins and development of the matter under question.
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