danilo, 
What is a human to a microbe in my gut?
What is a hand to an osteocyte in my finger?
What is an eye to a photoreceptor?
Each of these goes through the motions of their functions, never rising to the contextual capacity to perceive the larger whole.
And what has kept me awake at night for a long time is:
What is the whole that I belong to? Why do we crave belonging? Why do we feel sick down to our souls when we are alone, excluded, cut off?
God help me, I think cultures are superorganisms.
