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| A close up of an ant colony. (This picture is from: http://www.aacutepestcontrol.com/carpenter_ant_pictures.htm.) |
Again, this article is based on the idea that the world is one organism. The author compares human society to an ant colony. Just as the existence of a single ant is meaningless until it is seen in the light of the whole ant colony, humans are most interconnected when they work together to make society work. He also mentions that it is ironic that although humans are considered the most social animals, "we do not often feel our conjoined intelligence." However, he goes on to explain that maybe people are connected with each other in the way we process information and that "it may be [that] our biological function [is to] build a certain kind of Hill" that is different from the kind of community that is seen among other animals.
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