I think this way of looking at it is interesting and I don’t see why your comment is currently being downvoted.
Sun Tzu wrote about humans acting as a bigger organism when an army work together as one.
And with that in mind, and with your comment on top of that, I wonder:
We generally agree that self-awareness is a sign of general intelligence, right? So if a group of people see them selves as one, in some sense, and act as one in some sense, then could we say that we are witnessing an organism that is built from people and that is elevated over the mind of just each of the individual people?
In the same way that we people are made of what I will very scientifically refer to as “a bunch of smaller stuff” but yet we are more than just the individual bits of stuff we are made of because as a whole each of us have our self-awareness and all that.
That is, something of higher general intelligence than its parts.
Well perhaps the issue is that the comment had no justification to attach it to capitalism? Capitalism has been around much longer than the decline of these social bonds.
Sun Tzu wrote about humans acting as a bigger organism when an army work together as one.
And with that in mind, and with your comment on top of that, I wonder:
We generally agree that self-awareness is a sign of general intelligence, right? So if a group of people see them selves as one, in some sense, and act as one in some sense, then could we say that we are witnessing an organism that is built from people and that is elevated over the mind of just each of the individual people?
In the same way that we people are made of what I will very scientifically refer to as “a bunch of smaller stuff” but yet we are more than just the individual bits of stuff we are made of because as a whole each of us have our self-awareness and all that.
That is, something of higher general intelligence than its parts.