See, I was going to say: I don't buy food security, but I do think the Question of Others is at the heart of it. Not Others, but the question of if there ARE Others...& if there IS Self, or Being at all.
I think you might be on to something though thinking about it; like, food security is an issue beyond sentience, but I think it is reasonable to assert that animals have a Self. & they have a Family. Or I shouldn't say animals, I should say vertebrates; other forms of life I think are organized along different lines. Ants are just the cellular paradigm writ up another level of organization, right? Why bother with Self or Individual. Or fish, which-- I don't know anything about fish psychology-- seem to be almost pure zen, pure robot, with even schools being more like, math & probability, more than organization.
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Date: 2014-04-21 12:57 pm (UTC)I think you might be on to something though thinking about it; like, food security is an issue beyond sentience, but I think it is reasonable to assert that animals have a Self. & they have a Family. Or I shouldn't say animals, I should say vertebrates; other forms of life I think are organized along different lines. Ants are just the cellular paradigm writ up another level of organization, right? Why bother with Self or Individual. Or fish, which-- I don't know anything about fish psychology-- seem to be almost pure zen, pure robot, with even schools being more like, math & probability, more than organization.