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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The questions you're asking about already exist. Portguese man-o-war are colonies of multiple organisms. Bees and ants are considered superorganisms.
It's not going to happen to humans, if that's what you're asking. The evolutionary incentive simply isn't there to form a superorganism physically, though you could definitely make the argument that society and culture can be interpreted as a superorganism
Oh yes portguese man-o-war are an excellent example I'd love to take, which I hadn't heard of before, so thanks for sharing it! And surely it doesn't seem possible for human to be tied together into one organic object, for we are structured with such mobility and, independent will, if I may say so.
Still, for Portuguese man-of-war the way its polypuses are linked with each other has much less density than the way cells compose one single polypus. As for human it might just be the civilization we have, considering we have rules to restrict the behaviours of our members, and speciality differentiation making persons knowing a little bit of everything but don't specialtize in one particular field hard to make a living or simply having most of their time dealing with specialized jobs assigned to them so the collective body gets better functioning units. And the way we select the capable people might also contribute to the generic evolution to better fit as a component to the whole.
And it gets more distinct when it comes to one country instead of all human on earth. Interactions between nations seems fairly like that between multicellar creatures to me, having some sections of its smaller components making the decision and some conduct actual actions, and even, show signs of cognition.
So would it be appropriate to call countries as organic individuals that are about to be having cognitions of 'ME' and we are somewhat going through the stages before they're completely formed? And how do you think of what drives the direction of evolution?