Monday, September 17, 2012

Force Field and Species

The applicability, as has been previously discussed here, of the concept of Force Field to Biology, i. e. to an individual organism, opens the possibility of its applicability to pluralities of organisms, i. e. to a species, as well.  For example, the species instinct that is often attributed to the patterned motions of insects and birds can be classified as an 'attractive' force, and, therefore, as an indication of the presence of a Force Field.  Likewise, any 'survival' instinct of a species that governs the behavior of its members is an attractive force in a Force Field.  Thus, the interplay of a 'war of all against all' and a Leviathan exemplifies the Repulsion-Attraction constitution of a Force Field, as do post-Hobbesian models of the human species in which the repulsive component happens to be less emphatic.  Also, that the interplay involved in such concepts is between a 'natural' repulsive force and an 'artifactual' attractive force, is no argument against their constituting a Force Field--any effort to construct political institutions can be just as instinctive as is individual anti-sociality.  In other words, a tendency to socialize is as much an attractive force in a species as is the actualized sociality that is usually ascribed to insects.

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