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[HydrogenBond]

Civilization is natural for humans, but is not natural for other critters. Unlike bees or ants, the members of human civilizations don't have to be genetically linked from a common queen. Nor, like herd animals, are we linked based on chemicals for scent. The way humans link up for civilization is using the mind and brain and communication.

If you look at USA, there is extreme genetic diversity which would cause animals to separate, just like competing colonies of ants. What keeps it together are common values transfered by education, via the human mind. One has to be careful about assuming what is natural for animals is also natural for humans.

Humans have free will, which is a wild card variable that animals don't have. An animal can't do the unnatural. Humans can institutionalize it, because free will gives humans that option. What that means is human civilization can not depend on the same natural connections as animals to do the integrating unconsciously. Civilization has to work within the context of free will.

Here is an analogy. Say we have a network of computers. It is fairly easy to get it all the computers to integrate using hardware and software. This is like the animals. If we need to use the entire network to render some HD media, such as herd mating, we can make use of all the resources for that single task.

Next, let us replace the animal analogy computers with human AI (artificial intelligence) computers for the network, each which has it own own autonomy. These AI computers are smart enough to disconnect from the network and/or spread into the network and reroute network resources. The original hardware and software is no longer effective, under these conditions. We will need to add additional hardware and software to help compensate.

The ant colony's hardware-software for their group may work for them, since they don't have the AI network situation associated with every ant able to willfully do their own thing when they wish to. If they suddenly had that AI situation, their genetic network system would fall apart. The will power wild card can move too fast for genetic solutions to the problem, so the task is given to the brain.