I find myself using the term “human superorganism” a lot these days. Our bodies are composed of many cells and microbes working together; and if we zoom out, we have the dynamics in which human individuals operate together as superorganisms. IMO there’s a whole world of productive thinking to be done to attend to the health and strength of these entities.
Thatcher was briefly a research chemist; it’s extra weird that she couldn’t see beyond the atomic unit, to the societal equivalents of complex organic compounds.
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I find myself using the term “human superorganism” a lot these days. Our bodies are composed of many cells and microbes working together; and if we zoom out, we have the dynamics in which human individuals operate together as superorganisms. IMO there’s a whole world of productive thinking to be done to attend to the health and strength of these entities.
But Margret Thatcher said there isn't even a society. Just individuals.
Thatcher was briefly a research chemist; it’s extra weird that she couldn’t see beyond the atomic unit, to the societal equivalents of complex organic compounds.