‘Meta-SociaLity’: Not Limited to the Human Species.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘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’.

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;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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