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Jul 3, 2022Liked by Paul Logan

This is great! I think we are thinking in a similar space. In particular, the notion of 'anti-parasitism'.

I'm somewhat curious about the details of belief #3 ; do you think all of these large scale superorganisms are acting like parasites? Or just some of them? Do you think there's a clear boundary there? It sounds like you're proposing that we could create intentional superorganisms, and maybe your goal here would be that 'superorganisms should support individuals' - but this seems to conflict with the notion of solidarity suggesting that eventually everyone acts the same way.

Have you read René Girard at all? I haven't, but got the impression he argued that mimicry can end up leading to conflict, instead of solidarity. For example, if all of us have 'the same values', but that 'same value' is 'be the only one standing on this one hill', the act of solidarity becomes a generator of conflict, rather than a reducer of it. Arguably all organisms have this 'solidarity' in terms of their desire to harvest negentropy from their environment, and that solidarity leads to both cooperation and competition.

Sometimes in my life i think my mind has acted as a parasite towards the rest of the body, whereas the mind saw the body as the parasite in that situation. If there's a dispute between two actors, each of which is convinced that the other is a parasite, how would you resolve that dispute?

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