How Self-Aware can a Country be?

Jim Mason
4 min readMay 12, 2022

Are large supra-organisms too diffuse for self-awareness?

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Like all long-lasting human supra-organisms, living nations have cultural ideas that, although they may be expressed in written documents, videos, and other semi-permanent records, reside ultimately in the brains of the human individuals who currently collectively embody the nation.

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Jim Mason

I study language, cognition, and humans as social animals. You can support me by joining Medium at https://jmason37-80878.medium.com/membership