Shane Mage wrote: > add 6-dialectical > > -All action by a biological organism is individual action, interaction between > concrete environmental situations and concrete individually distinctive > propensities. > -All groups of individual organisms act, in a statistically average way, > according to their species-normative behavior. > > To put it otherwise: > -No bee is an individual, all are but units within the hive. > -Every worker bee forages and gathers individually, adapting individually > to the contingent circumstances it encounters.
this seems dialectical, but is it individualism? it points to shared elements of different individuals. That's right, but individualisms assume we are all different. (Brian: "you are all individuals!" People, in unison: "we are all individuals!" Spike Milligan character" "I'm not!" -- MP & the HG) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
