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Did Dinosaurs Apply War, or Was it Invisibly Lurking, Waiting for More Intellect? (Part 3 of An Artificiality of War series)
This is part three of a nine part series where I share some current research that I am working on concerning the nature of human conflict and how our species socially constructs reality within which, we clash swords, fling missiles, and destroy tangible and intangible constructs. This was something I worked on originally as a book chapter, but since then re-organized my third book project so that many of these concepts become their own dedicated chapter. So, this will be put here at Medium as an example of the writing process that I personally like to perform: Creating rough drafts, flinging them in series online, re-tooling them, and eventually getting to the great book projects that we usually want to dive into immediately, often unprepared. My preparation is as follows- research, think, write, edit, post, write more, edit more, post more, refine, and eventually cobble together a book. Somewhere in there is arguing with editors…
If you missed Part 1 and 2, of this series, they are located here:
Dinosaurs clearly used violence in biologically consistent relationships between predator and prey, along with parasitic and other related configurations for competition in a complex ecosystem. Yet waging individual acts of self-interested violence and that of a social, collective, and sophisticated form of organized violence nested in some political abstraction is a significant leap. Did dinosaurs apply war, or was it only until the human species gained novel cognitive and communicative abilities did war become accessible? This may be impossible to consider as dinosaurs no longer exist, so one could extend this into any other living species today on the planet as well. It…
