Hi Elliot,
ELLIOT's fuzzy boundaries:
Inorganic/biological: Virii
Biological/social lichen, perhaps ants?
social/intel: early man when symbol manipulation was just developing as a
social tool all the way up to beaucracracy (intel units still latched
hopelessly in subordination to social patterns)
I guess I was thinking something like this.
I don't know much about lichen but I can't see anything "social" about it.
ERIN's fuzzy boundaries (based on Piagetian stages and Pirsig's
subjective/objective split):
inorganic/biological---virii
biological/social---- "humanoids" with ability to think abstractly and to make
rational judgements about concrete or observable phenomena
social/intellectual--- humans with ability that no longer requires concrete
objects to make rational judgements
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