A materialist conception of mind needn't obviate the notion of human agency. But that's not quite the argument I was trying to get into.
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All I meant with "ghost in the machine" is that capital doesn't merely animate itself. That it's contingent upon other causal forces.
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what you seem to be overlooking there is the extent to which those other causal forces have become irreversibly contingent upon capital
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Replying to @adornofthagn @AMK2934 and
Pretty sure I mentioned some stuff above about incentives influencing (but not exclusively determining!) such matters.
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Replying to @mfckr_ @adornofthagn and
Also said capital is still owned & orchestrated by other humans—so who is really exerting contingence upon what?
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Replying to @mfckr_ @adornofthagn and
The (very poorly understood) concept of "ownership" might as well have been designed for pwnage.
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn and
That concept of ownership is essential to capitalism, so I dunno what you're on about.
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It's essential to capitalism that people at least blurrily think they understand what "ownership" means, sure.
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