Re:How plants evolved to make ants their servants
by kopo on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:37PM
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People like to keep saying the elite will reach godhood thanks to the increasing pace of biological/technical progress (that they will reap the most). But the opposite might well happen. The more data that pours in the more obvious it may become they are all, like you say, just replaceable cogs.
But that said, this result should not be surprising if we would get our minds out of the very narrow species-oriented view of nature, where individuals and populations are selfish (even gluttonous) over-consumers and over-reproducers. This model is just wrong. Nature is a vast cooperation of thousands, millions of species. Cooperation at a larger scale that is very much like--in fact, might be called exactly the same--as our bodies, which are complex systems of interacting microorganisms, not all of which have a human genome.
Nature is one giant organism, and the species and individuals that we elevate to godly status are really just cogs and wheels in the grand scheme of things.