[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[Krimel]

[John]
I'd argue that the true aspect of social patterning takes a self/other
realization that is more than instinctual or hardwired.  Every bee seems to
react exactly like ever other bee, without choice. 

[Krimel]
Many human to human interactions especially social ones are heavily
hardwired, emotional displays and our responds to those displays in others,
for example.

It is not true that bees "react exactly like every other bee, without
choice". Not sure what choice adds but bees respond differently to worker
bees and queens and to bee from "other" hives, same with ants. Slime mold
respond to members of "other" colonies differently than to their own.

Social behavior and collective action is a biological strategy. It arises
from and serves biological success.