‘Meta-SociaLity’:
Not
Limited
to the
Human
Species.
Dear Reader,
We do not
classify Human societies,
ontologically, as inhering in the same ontological category as “animaL societies”, in our dialectical ‘meta-model’
of the ‘«aufheben»-ating’, ‘meta-«monad»-izing’, self-involuting ‘meta-evolution’
of our cosmos: ‘The Dialectic of Nature’.
We hold,
instead, that there is a dialectical relation, i.e., an «aufheben»
relation, between animal “mere societies”, and human ‘meta-societies’,
as a [self-]extension – the ultimate known-to-us [self-]extension, so
far – of the progression of «aufheben» ‘meta-«monad»-izations’
that constitute the known ‘Dialectic of Nature’, and the ontological ‘self-meta-evolution’
of Nature, to-date.
That is, we see
human societies, as ‘societies of societies’; as ‘societies squared’.
In terms of our
NQ ‘categorial-dialectical ideography’
model of ‘The
Dialectic of Nature’, we represent this qualitative, ontological distinction
between animal and human societies via the following ‘categorial arithmetiques/algebraics’
–
animaL societies20 = animaL societies1 = animaL societies ®
animaL societies21 = animaL societies2 =
animaL societies1 <+> D animaL societies1 |-º
animaL societies1 <+> meta-[animal-]societies1
–
and we often abbreviate ‘meta-societies’ as just ‘Human-societies’,
after the most ‘meta-Darwinianly successful’ known species of ‘meta-society’,
in terms of ‘meta-Darwinian fitness’.
Via
the ‘ideogramical language’ of the NQ categorial-dialectical short-hand, the above expressions become –
L20 = L1 ® L21 = L2 = L1 ~<+>~ DL1 |-º L1 ~<+>~ H1
= L
~<+>~ H
–
with ‘~<+>~’ explicitizing the ‘oppositional addition’ of
qualitatively-different, ontologically-different categories, such that the
right-more category-symbol, here H,
represents a multi-determination ‘determinate negation’ of the left-more
category-symbol, here L.
We
measure ‘meta-Darwinian fitness’ as the ‘sustained higher and accelerating self-reproductive
rate’ of human societies, in the sense of their ‘socio-mass’ reproduction-rate,
or ‘meta-social onto-mass’ reproduction-rate, which combines the socio-mass reproductive
rate of human individuals with that of human artifacts, including not only tools
and social infrastructures, etc., but also domesticated plant and animal
biomass, internalized into each human ‘meta-society’ unit.
That
is, the above is how we measure ‘the societal self-re-productive
self-force’ of the human species; the human-social ‘self-reproductive self-force
of humanity’ [cf. Marx: “social forces of production”].
Each
unit of human-society, as a ‘meta-society’ unit, is made up out of a heterogeneous
multiplicity of animal society units, led by human, former animal-society
units, made such, made former by the consequences of their creation of ‘meta-society’
units.
A
‘meta-society’ is an «aufheben» ‘self-meta-unit-ization’ of a
heterogeneous multiplicity of former mere animal society units. For human meta-societies, this began, in the
era called the Paleolithic, with the human domestication of wolves into dogs,
incorporating wolf social animal units into a ‘meta-social’ mutualism with
human, thereby former animal society units. Later, in and defining the Neolithic era,
more animal society units were incorporated into the, burgeoning, human ‘meta-society
meta-units’, including reindeer, horses, goats, pigs, chickens, cattle and even
elephants, with varying degrees of success, but also incorporating and
domesticating, by human labor, what we call ‘social plants’, in
the world-historic breakthrough into agricultural technology, which, at length,
enabled the irruption of the ancient multi-city-state civilizations, and beyond.
However,
in fact, human-societies, although the most-prominent known ‘meta-societies’ on
Earth, are not the only species of ‘meta-society’ units known
on Earth. In fact, there are quite a few
other Terran ‘meta-society’ units in existence, most little-known, and none exhibiting
the vast ‘meta-socio-mass’ reproduction-rate acceleration that human-social ‘meta-socio-mass’
has exhibited and achieved.
To
name one non-human ‘meta-society’ units-kind, consider ants and aphids.
It
is true that, among the many social-animal, insect-species of aphids, there are
many aphid-society units which live apart from any ‘meta-socialization’ with
ant-society units.
However,
there are aphid species which are “farmed” by ants. The ants enhance aphid reproduction rates by protecting
them from predators and from other hazards.
The ants benefit, reproductively, from such aphids, by gathering and consuming the “honeydew”
that “their” aphids release, with the ants “dairying” or “milking” the amino-acids-rich
honeydew from “their” aphids by rubbing the aphids with their ant antenna.
Some
“farming ants” even temporarily shelter their aphids’ eggs in their ant-hives
during the winters, returning, e.g., in the springs, carrying the,
since-hatched, aphids back to the plants upon which the aphids feed.
There
are other, less-well-known, cases of Terran ‘meta-societies’, such as the coral/zooxanthellae-micro-organisms ‘meta-social’ association, with the units of the zooxanthellae making the resulting coral/- zooxanthellae ‘meta-society’
units photosynthetic.
But this is a rather anomalous claim of a ‘meta-society’, in that the zooxanthellae are plant-like [photosynthetic], and are not ‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular meta-biota’, put are mere, albeit ‘‘‘social’’’, eukaryotic cell units, mere, ‘‘uni-cellular’’, ‘meta-prokaryotic biota’ [per our pre-atomic “particles”-as-«arché»-category ‘meta-model’ of the dialectic of
nature, the ontological category to which the coral/zooxanthellae mutualism sorts
is not qLL [--> q128, where subscript L
denotes the
ontological category of proto-Languages-based
social organisms, including coral,
but, instead, sorts to --
qLE [--> q80
-- where subscript E denotes the ontological category of Eukaryotic living cells]..
A ‘meta-society’ unit proper unites social, ‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular meta-biota’ units into a single ‘meta-social meta-unit’.
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¡ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];
Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;
Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;
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