Identity isn't a scientific question, science can't tell you who you are. Collectivist ideologies throughout history have encouraged people to think of themselv

Identity isn't a scientific question, science can't tell you who you are. Collectivist ideologies throughout history have encouraged people to think of themselves as - or rather maybe, be subsumed in an identity outside their body. And it might be wrong in a moral sense, but in a scientific sense it's neither right or wrong. Of course there's complex interaction and information exchange going on inside a state or a "race", and it's not clear why that shouldn't make collective "intelligent" in the same way we argue an individual human is intelligent. Philosophies which derive identity/value from intelligence (I don't agree with those philosophies) have very little to answer to collectivist ideologies which reject humanism.