Because of the complexity of the Universe, nobody can know everything about everything, even as facts, never mind the skills we know how to perform. In practice, we are all specialists in our occupations, whether as astrophysicists or concert pianists, for instance.

However, because we are so preoccupied with our careers, families, and other interests, few have the opportunity to discover what we all share as humans, in common with all other beings, animate or otherwise.

When developing an evolutionary model of the psychodynamics of some eight billion humans, it is useful to distinguish the various stages of development that we go through, both as individuals and as a species, collectively influencing each other.

One such example is the ‘seven states of consciousness’, which Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who famously introduced Transcendental Meditation (TM) in the West, identified. This ranges from ‘Dreamless Sleep’, as a relative state, to ‘Unity’, where the ‘Absolute-relative paradox’ is resolved.

Species is one of many words that the analytical mind uses to distinguish classes or categories of beings in human reason, others being type, sort, and kind. As such, species does not play a special role in Integral Relational Logic. While conventional logicians sometimes use the word with its original meaning, as a subclass of genus, it is most familiar today as the fundamental category of taxonomic classification in biology.