> What you have done, is simply added a symbol to a phenomena. Isn't that what we always do when we use language? To me a "super-organism" means seeing the wh

> What you have done, is simply added a symbol to a phenomena. Isn't that what we always do when we use language? To me a "super-organism" means seeing the whole instead of the parts. When I speak about myself, I don't say: my hands did, my feet walked. I say: I did, I walked. In my mind, I don't picture the multitude of cells composing my body as individual organisms, rather as parts of a single unit.