What makes a one 'real', aside from the material blocks? Each specie has a singular way to progress, not so much by survival against the odds created from space occupation by other species, but much more through interaction, at all levels;

Kind of a specialized brain, made of individuals all wired specifically to connect with same, using it's own specie's keys as a password, before being able to become 'alive', upon being 'connected';

Societal structures create the networks, the communication fibres which make a specie through the interplay of each individual, which then derives a reality bonus from the connection, while never really aware of what or why this 'connection' now is;

Conscience never lives within one network, for it is a cloud like apparatus, the water into which all networks 'float';

Culture versus specialization, not against, for culture has no substance as we all define it, societies all are made of it while culture is 'air', the one all matter gets a life from.