Here is what I came up with last night while thinking about this stuff: a community is an entity, and it has its own personality and its own goals and feelings, and also its own memory, and the memory is why the community can sometimes take care of people who have temporarily or recently stopped participating in the community.
I think community personalities/goals/feelings/memories tend to be less complex and shorter-lived than human ones.
Re: Adorable kitty, BTW :)
Here is what I came up with last night while thinking about this stuff: a community is an entity, and it has its own personality and its own goals and feelings, and also its own memory, and the memory is why the community can sometimes take care of people who have temporarily or recently stopped participating in the community.
I think community personalities/goals/feelings/memories tend to be less complex and shorter-lived than human ones.