linked to from: #E1.3. n_C3_Societies.php included as #C2.
2.1. For those in our kingdom, society is the focus of our environment; providing the frame of meaningthrough which our ontogenies develop. 2.2. We have evolved as co-operative of cells rather than as the dictatorship of brains. Our bodies are societies. Only half of the cells in my body have my DNA — the other half are bacteria without which I would struggle to survive. 2.3. The identity: I is in effect an illusion, the necessary emergent quality of a unique alliance of animal and bacterial cells. 2.4. Societies are are fundamental. Constructed by both allies and predators, they are the builder of complex organisms and provide their means of survival.