is there something idiosyncratic about describing capital as an intelligence? war? a housing bubble?
in other words, a process - such as a war or a financial bubble - involving humans can be intelligent (if it exhibits the escalatory, "self-enhancing" principle), but individual humans cannot
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humans are processes too u know... and no, processes are not so much intelligent, as intelligence is itself a process, actualized through processes
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so capital (indeed any process) is not, in the final analysis, intelligent?
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with capital, it gets a bit more complicated I guess (when you try to grasp it as an entity or process, things get *weird*), at the very least it comes pretty close to being identical with intelligence as it happens now -which may ofc change, but that's hard for us to conceive of
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hmm not sure I follow you. are you saying now that intelligence is not a quality (defined by local intensification) attributable to processes, but rather is itself a social process, like capital (or war, etc), which is in fact identical to capital?
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I'm not not saying that
'in fact identical', 'social' and 'like capital (or war, etc (!))' are problematic because: factual identity is tricky when it comes to capital, social suggests an unfortunately specific perspective, capital isn't like war such that there can be 'a' war -
capital is a specific social process though, like a war or a housing bubble. I take it you agree with the first bit, "that intelligence is not a quality (defined by local intensification) attributable to processes"?
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capital isn't so much a specific social process, it is 'the' process of 'roundabout production' ('social', again, seems to try to reduce it to the human element), but yeah defining intelligence as a qualitative attribute of processes seems precisely backwards
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ok, capital is a specific process (which includes a social element but also something non-human - what?). in general processes (such as capital) are not intelligent. rather there is a specific process called intelligence which is close to being but not quite identical to capital
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