[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.




More information about the Moq_Discuss mailing list