My intuitions on economics/policy and whatever are strongly influenced by my understanding of evolution, in that I have this idea that a thriving nation should have a lot in common with a thriving body, and share the principles the body used to get to where it is and survive.
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Here's one way both could be true: Maybe you think they're naturally-occurring but just not as effective as they claim to be.
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Elaborate? I know I was vague in my tweets so we might have to do some dissecting
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The main top-down self-modification systems in the body are, I guess, the central nervous system, and the HPA axis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamic%E2%80%93pituitary%E2%80%93adrenal_axis …
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My brain is trying to figure out if the cells are into getting topped or not
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In some ways a better-fitting analogy is an ecosystem. A body has more cohesion than a country -- it makes you think of Hobbes's Leviathan.
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A body often regulates the actions and effects of its component genes 'top down' and genes collaborate in a body because the compromise that involves is better than going it alone. What emerges is the conscious self. Will society become conscious?
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BTW. Love your lucid thinking! You have a new follower.
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It's more than an analogy! I literally just submitted an article on this. In short, both biological and economic evolution are about the growth of knowledge. As such, both are constrained by the same principles.
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Philosopher Michael Huemer makes a similar point in In Praise of Passivity. "Voters, activists, and political leaders of the present day are in the position of medieval doctors. They hold simple, prescientific theories about the workings of society" http://studiahumana.com/pliki/wydania/In%20Praise%20of%20Passivity.pdf …
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"They derive a variety of remedies...which prove either ineffectual or harmful. Society is a complex mechanism whose repair, if possible at all, would require a precise and detailed understanding of a kind that no one today possesses."
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