Chapter 08 — States are natural to humans, Paragraph 1.1 (§08.00.01.01)

In essence, states are informational individualisation infrastructures that turn humans into individuals (through a name and a citizenship, see §07.00.04), the only universal and natural human individualisation mechanism. States also create the processing environment necessary for (their) humans to live in, making it possible for them to live a meaningful life. Individualisation is natural to humans, and necessary for them to satisfy their need to augment their information processing. States are a necessary part of human existence, in the sense that without them human life as we know it or as has ever been known, would be impossible. States are neither artificially created by humans (under, for example, social contract or any other theory) nor the result of a gradual development within human history. There was no state (or society) before individuals, and no individuals before the(-ir) state(s); both were formed simultaneously, at the very same time.

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