Mistake

[Eyeman]

Too true. But just think what could be achieved by 7.5 billion people working as a single organism.
I live in hope.

It's been tried- wasn't it communism.
Without competition you'll always get a proportion of those not willing to put in their lots worth. Any don't forget progress.

 

[Finman]

It's been tried- wasn't it communism.
Without competition you'll always get a proportion of those not willing to put in their lots worth. Any don't forget progress.

before that

 

[colinc]

Roman Empire?
Genghis Khan?
A few tried before the Elizabethans


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[SDM]

Hmm, pretty sure they're all examples of small portions trying to conquer and subjugate other portions.
Not exactly what I had in mind.

 

[Millet]

Hmm, pretty sure they're all examples of small portions trying to conquer and subjugate other portions.
Not exactly what I had in mind.

A bit like one hive robbing another sort of thing..

 

[colinc]

So the human race working as one organism analogy fails there. Unless we have off planet populations as other colonies we can interact with.
You would need to consider it at a country or city level. But then we do share tasks like a colony so not sure where we are going with this theory.......


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[Millet]

So the human race working as one organism analogy fails there. Unless we have off planet populations as other colonies we can interact with.
You would need to consider it at a country or city level. But then we do share tasks like a colony so not sure where we are going with this theory.......


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Neither do i .. , however a colony of honey bees is likened to a single mammal in how it performs and works..

 

[Beefriendly]

So the human race working as one organism analogy fails there.

I suspect the implication would be that everyone was working altruistically towards the common good of the humankind, with no selfish interests, monetary backhanders or New Years peerages being awarded.. Similar to how Seeley described swarm decision making for new homes.
But the bees let themselves down, the more we look at their behaviour inside the hive the less altruistic we find it. From selfish workers egg laying in all normal hives and needing policing to prevent their genes possibly being passed on and then the Royal lines with only some sub-lineages destined for peerage. Seems bees may have modeled their "society" on us.

 

[Newbeeneil]

Freecycle!

For cheap stuff I always resort to Freecycle
Always looking for paving slabs to put hive stands on, loads of free wood and recently I advertised for a deep fat frier for melting wax and was offered a brand new one!
I also have a local timber yard who run me up 12' x 12" x 3/4" planks for £13.50, enough for 2 brood boxes....

 

[Finman]

Neither do i .. , however a colony of honey bees is likened to a single mammal in how it performs and works..

If you choose earthworms instead of bees, it would be easier to think how they work.

. That super organism would eat for example rotten leaves, or cut directly lawn.

Mating would be complex to imagine. Who is with whom?

----- But with these ideas you would have succes in 8 years old writing competition in the category "Lost Childhood". An idea about mammal comes from idea "mamma".

 

[Angry_Mob]

For cheap stuff I always resort to Freecycle
Always looking for paving slabs to put hive stands on, loads of free wood and recently I advertised for a deep fat frier for melting wax and was offered a brand new one!
I also have a local timber yard who run me up 12' x 12" x 3/4" planks for £13.50, enough for 2 brood boxes....

Never though of a deep fat frier, recently inherited one when I bought a house so might have to re-purpose it.