To Whom?

 

Now, in my mental peregrinations, I have chosen to sit down on the idea of the primary organism being the Holobiont.  Now, this makes a couple of big assumptions that folks don't really like.  The most prominent of these little bits of social awkwardness is that the individual isn't really all that important in the grand scheme of things.   

I guess that it where I am thinking about going with this little foray into the nature of things.  Rather than starting out with the idea of an individual member as H. Sapiens being the starting point, the way that I want to approach it is what is the nature of the relationship between the cognition and consciousness of the individual and the holobiont of which we are a part.  Tough bit of work this.  None of the standard tools offered us in our education seem to be of any particular use.  The relationship is easy within the smaller holobiont that accounts for we individuals currently called humans, but for right now lets say the the holobiont problem just doesn't seem to scale well.

But only a minimum time has been applied to the problem.  Like most ideas the big issue seems pretty good, but the devil lies in the details.  I think that i Need to set up a formal thesis here in the none to distant future.  

So, per the requirements and the training that I received in my youth I have been reading a lot of things that weren't fashionable in the long ago.  So today I am reviewing the netherworld of symbiogenesis and going to lunch with the family