I thought I'd responded to you earlier, but livejournal seems to have eaten my reponse! Briefly-
I'm not at all sure I understand you. But I do understand if you're saying that boundaries are a mental construct. I often drive between states, and the differences in the roads, etc., can be obvious - but only because we humans choose to make them so. True, there are natural boundaries such as rivers, mountains, and so on. But why do we see these things as boundaries to territory, rather than simply as rivers and mountains?
It seems there's something in us humans that persists in defining in-groups and out-groups. All our best and truest philosophies have taught us that this is a false way of looking at the world, but it takes so long to learn!
Anyway, that's what I took from your comment, in so far as I understood it. Am I on the right track?
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I'm not at all sure I understand you. But I do understand if you're saying that boundaries are a mental construct. I often drive between states, and the differences in the roads, etc., can be obvious - but only because we humans choose to make them so. True, there are natural boundaries such as rivers, mountains, and so on. But why do we see these things as boundaries to territory, rather than simply as rivers and mountains?
It seems there's something in us humans that persists in defining in-groups and out-groups. All our best and truest philosophies have taught us that this is a false way of looking at the world, but it takes so long to learn!
Anyway, that's what I took from your comment, in so far as I understood it. Am I on the right track?