[lbo-talk] Self-Consciousness (was Re: Shakespeare)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 11 10:01:26 PST 2007


--- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
> ^^^^^^^
> CB; Good point. Species before humans were less
> social than humans. So,
> individual animals were more independent individuals
> than humans.

See how well an ant lives on its own. Social insects are much more social than human beings.

I'm not even sure that's true of "higher" animals. How are human beings "more social" than other primates, or pack animals in general, not to mention animals that live in huge colonies like bats?

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