At 5:23 PM -0600 12/27/99, Jennifer Kelly wrote:
>How can we be so sure that intellect comes after society on the ladder of
>evolution?
Sometimes a good question can really jog your thinking... Thanks Jennifer
for jogging mine!
As I thought about it, I realized that whenever I read a discussion on
"society" I think of human society. But Ants and Bees have social patterns
and so do wolves and deer and sheep. These social patterns of non-human
animals point out that you don't need intellect to form society. Society's
evolve by obeying biological patterns that work.
But how intellect arises is something of a mystery to me. The only
experience we have of intellect is in human society, so it does seem to be
a unique transition. I also know that the conflict between society and
intellect is the most interesting to me. I believe that intellect is
dynamic quality to the social level. What's dynamic quality to the
intellectual level? Where do hypothesis come from?
Questions... questions...
jc
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