Can we tell whether human groups or societies are behaving as superorganisms?

Question

An anthill can be described as a superorganism, with behaviours and interactions much more complex than those of an individual ant. We could find analogies between the superorganism and other living organisms, as memory for instance. Chemicals that ants use to mark paths, could work as a gigant memory for the superorganism. Multicellular organisms can be seen as superorganisms compounds of many individual cells too. Among cells, they recognise certain patterns in their surrounding and behave accordingly to play specific roles, that is why most of us have all our body's parts in their place. Humans, are multicelular organisms that recognise patterns with a different level of complexity and change their behaviour to fit within specific roles in a group of individuals or society. I'm sure that cells lack the level of comprehension that humans have, which brings me to the question... Are we part of a more complex superorganism, that we lack the level of conprehencion to identify or even understand?

Answer 1

So short answer would be no, we aren't nor can't be a super organism at least in a behavior way. A longer answer/explanation to this would be having to look at the complexity of individual human compare to an individual ant. So if we just for convenience order social relation ship with species of animals. You would on one spectrum have solitary animals, social animals and eusocial animals. What separates a social animal (dogs ) from a eusocial animal (ants, bees, naked mole rat) in behavorial is roles. Specifically the ability to reproduce or not. Coming back to humans you could artificially create a society will individual role give based on the ability to reproduce or not ( certain things we have done in one way) however nothing could show that society would work more then one where the role humans fit in society had more complexity and variety then just based on whether they could reproduce.