I very much doubt that any of the primates can be individuals, and the concept of a human being an individual is obscene. To be an individual is to be a god, a lower animal, or an inanimate clod. Carrol
This is just totalitarian rubbish. To equate the obvious existence of individuals with bourgeois individualism is simply an ideological pronouncement. It has no basis in any science and reflects a remarkable ignorance of philosophy to boot (try thinking through the relations between universal, particular and specific on the basis of such a pronouncement). You are putting yourself in the camp of the worst metaphysical obscurantism and it is very revealing. If you want to ground this discussion in anything concrete at all - which I doubt on available evidence - try thinking through the question of memory. Are you acquainted with any branches of cognitive science (it seems doubtful)? If so explain to me on that basis, not on the basis of some hocus pocus pronouncements how it is that there is only collective memory, not individual. Tahir