On Mar 23, 2:17 pm, Don Stockbauer <donstockba...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 23, 10:41 am, gort <adweil...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > The existence of a communications channel will
> > lead to conflict due to the problem of translation.
> > Humans will shout and start to fight because they
> > can't understand what the other one is saying or
> > because what they hear isn't the same as what the
> > other one says. Like a bad game of telephone that
> > leads to war.
>
> Oh, I don't know.  We're doing pretty good now. Sure,
> we have a few squabbles around the globe but if you
> compare them to the magnificence of a construct an
> untold number of times more powerful than a single
> human brain, they fade to insignificance.  But then
> again, you may be right.  Nobody can prove anything
> about such a complex system.  But just because we
> can't prove it doesn't mean it couldn't create itself
> via self-organization.  As the Universe did.

Perhaps we can learn something about this from the
evolution "simpler" organizations of individuals such
as found in an ant, termite or bee colony?

Clearly the ants, as individuals, were not responsible
for the development of the colony. They just behaved
in ways that resulted in reproductive success.

At a lower level all multicellular organisms are tight
colonies of cells. One thing that is common to them
all is specialization.

Interestingly perhaps is that in the more advanced
societies, with the access to contraception and the
desire for an individual "good life", the reproductive
success decreases.

JC