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Maybe our taxonomy is wrong.. Maybe these insects should be considered part of the "plant kingdom" ? Given that [certain] plants cannot survive without (these
by justsaysmthng 11y ago
Maybe our taxonomy is wrong..
Maybe these insects should be considered part of the "plant kingdom" ?
Given that [certain] plants cannot survive without (these) insects, it results that (these) insects are an essential part of [those] plants.
Or, more grossly, (these) insects are actually part of the plant organisms.
For the plants they are a form of detachable reproduction organs.
The other way around:
Bees have external "organs" - the plant part.
The bees are part "animals", part plants - they need the plant "organ" for nourishment and they choose who the plant will mate with.
This way of looking at animals/plants has certain implications:
We can't just look at a peach garden without also considering the bees and other insects required for the garden's long term survival.
Why stop at bees ? What about all the other insects/animals who depend on these "unified" organisms ? Are they also
part of some sort of larger "organism" ?
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See, the reason it is very difficult to address many of the complex problems that we have in the world today is because we use these taxonomy systems (in programming terms - "class hierarchies") - they define and limit our ability to grasp the complexity of the full system.
And somehow, we maintain these taxonomy systems without refactoring them, even though our understanding of nature has grown considerably after these systems of categorization have been introduced many years ago.
Just like a well designed class hierarchy leads to a clean and efficient application, so should the way we categorize things and beings in nature determine the overall health of the whole system.
It is rarely possible to come up with the perfect class hierarchy from the very beginning, since the problem is rarely clearly defined and changes over time, so we refactor.
We need to keep our class hierarchies in sync with the objective reality and the same should be done to taxonomy systems, otherwise "reality" doesn't quite fit in our neatly defined boxes of boxes of boxes of things, like Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, etc