Exnihiloest wrote:sen-no-sen wrote:To say that the economy is a thinking entity is not unfounded.
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We could even raise an altar to her, and in the face of our great fervor, perhaps she could follow our prayers.
Of course, there are also those who pray capitalism and liberalism, another powerful thinking entity, and those who pray to the rising little thinking entity called ecologism. This could trigger a war among the thinking entities, and fortunately prayer can be our help.
Exponential Economism is a religion there is no doubt about it, it is still necessary to define the term religion in its first sense: that is to say as a means of connecting individuals to each other.
Off by erecting a global culture Exponential economism succeeded in what no other religion had achieved before: unifying the world to transform it.
It can therefore be said without doubt that economism is the most powerful complex of ideas in human history.
Environmentalism is also a complex of ideas and it is quite logical that it enters into Darwinian competition with the first, however as for fundamentalist Islamism it appears that memeplex is actually under the control of the dominant model ...
No, for the reason that it does not have its own motivation therefore no desire to act. Only the men who are maneuvering have it.
It is a peremptory statement.
Besides, why do we speak of a legal person or legal personality under French law?
You have to define the terms to understand what we are talking about,what is motivation?
For a human being it is the fact of guaranteeing homeostasis by a set of actions, for a company it is to maintain its activity and past a certain dimension increase its profit by different processes ...
What does the two have in common? It's simple: maximizing energy dissipation.
Motivation is a trend that is specific to intelligent systems and aims to maximize their future potential for action.
The study of large companies clearly shows that they follow their own logic and that they largely escape the wishes of their founders.
The decision-making process within monopolies is thus directly correlated to a multitude of parameters which go far beyond human decision-making capacities, in particular due to the economic determinisms specific to their scales.
Similarly to believe that humans would be masters of their own destinies by placing them as the engine of their existence is a largely unfounded vision, it is to idealism!
Richard Dawkins Selfish gene has widely put forward this somewhat confusing notion for classical philosophers ...