HUMAN COLONY FORMATION 



ment of a more clearly emerging "mind" of the so- 

 cietal organism is now set. 



WHILE THE HUMAN SOCIETAL ORGANISM IS EVOLVING, 

 ALL OF ITS NEW QUALITIES ARE DIFFICULT 



TO EVALUATE. 



Throughout the period of recorded history, and 

 probably preceding that period, the long term trend 

 in human society has been in the direction of increas- 

 ing the size of the cohesive units of society. The growth 

 of the social units was accompanied by an increasing 

 complexity of the internal control system essential for 

 proper function. At this time the average individual, 

 even though functioning effectively within the entire 

 social structure, is often unaware of the mechanism 

 and nature of this structure. Even those individuals in 

 key positions within this structure, who are able to ex- 

 ert control over certain phases of its functioning, can- 

 not possibly be aware of all the detailed processes es- 

 sential to such function. Yet the entire society does 

 function. 



This process is not so different from the integrated 

 functioning of a multicellular animal, in which the in- 

 dividual cells have no knowledge whatever of their 

 role, nor of the entire organism, yet where the organ- 

 ism also functions as an entity in a highly integrated 

 fashion. The reader, at this point, may perhaps won- 

 der that if the analogy drawn is really valid, how then 



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