[MD] Social level for humans only

[John Carl]

Society vs Culture is a good place to apply our analytical knife.  I'll
agree that animals don't really exhibit culture.  But then I believe that
culture implies or contains aspects of intellectuality which I think is
unique to humans.

At the same time, there is a big difference between biological
self-preservation, and altruistic behavior when animals bond and sacrifice
energy or life in defense of the herd or offspring.

Sociality plainly exists.  To say it's all irrelevant because it's just
biologically programmed behavior, seems as facile as saying it's all
irrelevant because everything is just random inorganic reactions.  The
patterns of sociality are demonstrably real and obviously transcendant of
mere biology.  EO Wilson's, Sociobiology was a fascinating read for me, just
after high school.  So if we're gonna divide up reality according to
patterns, we have to have a place in which to fit social behavior.


Adding Culture as a half-way point between social and intellectual seems
kinda kludgy to me.  Culture I think should be defined as "those
intellectually derived patterns that are accepted by the society".   SQ
intellectual patterns, if you will.

John the unconvinced(ing)