Opening

Three bases to establish global reach: intelligence, collaboration and communication

We ask the question of this texts, what humanity does want, from the depth of the historical perspective. From the dominant view and research, with the little that we know about our deep past, we imagine that Humanity started out as a species where kin-groups and bands cooperated with each-other, and combated others to obtain resources, stability, and to control or share resources and territory. These dynamics stem from millions of years of evolution until the present.

Regardless if the actual picture was like that, or with some significant differences, for the outlined behaviours we have three main components that allow humans to have global reach: intelligence (as problem/puzzle solving with tools external to the body), collaboration (between individuals of the same species and between others), communication (in many forms and ways).

However, these characteristics common to humans are also shared by many other living things in this planet. Therefore, in the following, we will explore in detail what is similar and different and what allows us to be fundamentally different than all the rest of species that share these three bases.

This will form the basis of how we got there, to ask this question about where to go as a collective species. Investigating the natural growth of these three characteristics might shed some light into our unique times.

No other species on this planet has gone far beyond the genetic boundaries that make us. As we will see, the breaking of the boundaries happens thanks to the creation of a superstructure that is, to a degree, independent of the genetic code. This structure is what we call culture.

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