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    4 days ago

    You’re carrying out a similar fallacy by claiming use of the term in its original field is illigitimate in this argument. On top of that, right on the wikipedia page for Eusociality, it states that biologists such as E.O. Wilson have previously argued that humans are weakly eusocial, weakening your whole argument in the first place.

    The concept of humans as super-organisms is explored in both sociology and biology, and i’d argue that that means humans fit the bill. Whatever no-true-Scotsman version you’ve been gate keeping with doesn’t even fully agree with the field you’re supposedly arguing on the behalf of.


  • I see you’re point, I was a bit hasty when saying there’s no good reason to make an exception.

    I still do not agree with the argument that ‘Ants are a superorganism, so it’s not really a genocide’. For humans it’s a genocide, because we’re trying to describe a social crime within humanity. For everything else, extermination is communicating the same thing, but generically.










  • So something I’ve been confused by: are synapses transmitting via electrical signals, chemical signals , or both? It feels like whenever I read about broad brain function they talk about electrical signals, but whenever you research individual synapse function, they talk about chemicals being passed between one another.