Chapter 08 — States are natural to humans, Paragraph 7.2 (§08.00.07.02)

What is also important is that humans accomplished this themselves, by their own means. For example, dogs have names and recently have been registered with states. This has led to their individualisation, in the sense that they are now uniquely identifiable in space and time, like any human. However, this has not led (for the moment, at least) to any dog increasing its information processing compared to in the past. Individualisation does not seem to lead to a dog culture. The new possibilities enabled by the individualisation of each dog have not been used by them. Why is that? It may be that not enough time has passed; humans have created states and processed information for thousands of years. However there is another difference: humans have individualised dogs to suit their own (human) nature, that is, it was done by humans for dogs. As far as we can tell, dogs have no internal need to individualise themselves uniquely in space and time. This example, in spite of its oversimplification and arbitrariness (it should be clear that this example only relates to domesticated dogs that live outside of their packs (or, that have formed packs with their humans), to name just one of its countless limitations), is used for illustration purposes only: humans’ individualisation of animals or other Beings is only humans’ way of understanding them, of better processing their information within the human need to augment their own information processing. It does not serve the need of the Beings on the receiving end of the humans’ individualisation process.

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