The ultimate goal of a mind is to reproduce the genes that created it.
Among social primates, the ability to manipulate others is one of the most
important factors in getting one's genes into the next generation. The human
mind evolved primarily as a tool to manipulate others in complex
25 January 1999
With all respect for the great and invaluable work of the
Worldwatch Institute, some distinction must be made between
hard reality (most of the news relase) and some overly
optimistic corporates' "solutions".
At 18:08 24-01-99 -0500, Steve Kurtz posted (to 'ecological
Ok, I'm trying to be short, not rude...
But this research effort reminds me of
some age old stuff of the 60s or so, when
they decided, that the colour of the
walls would help the productivity
of the workers... Cutting the boringness
and team work would also for carworkers...
Open vs closed
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:25:54 -0800
From: Corporate Watch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What's New 1/20/99
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WHAT'S NEW ON CORPORATE WATCH January 20, 1999
The Watchdog on the Web http://www.corpwatch.org
We have updated our
For an answer to what I now name "The Lump of Samuelson Fallacy" (I thought
of something entirely more biting to begin with but decided to be polite),
please see my previous post about Krugman and the Austrians (below).
Samuelson has been one of the greatest disasters to befall economics. It
is
Regarding the subject of what is science and definitions which emphasized
observation and rejection of theories when counter factual data is
presented, I thought the two following documents would be of interest.
Scientists do not as a rule observe and then theorize. They typically do
it the
Neva Goodwin:
"At some point, we need to ask, why are we using the word, "work"?
There are other good words -- "self-actualization" (well, that's not
a very euphoneous one, but it has a good meaning), "play" -- I've
tended to assume that "work" had to do with an output of some kind
that was of
From the Globe and Mail:
Designer seeds a
growing concern in India
Monday, January 25, 1999John
Stackhouse
Badshahpur, India -- Ever since the cotton-field massacre,
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Neva Goodwin:
"At some point, we need to ask, why are we using the word, "work"?
Exactly! In a world with Limits to Growth, only those people who are
"needed" to produce essential goods and services should work. All
the rest should "play". See "The Foulest of
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From: Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The ultimate goal of a mind is to reproduce the genes that created it.
wrong, and there are plenty of human (they are the ones with the mind)
Good point! I am working on my next paper. It's changed to:
"A mind is predisposed to
Eva Durant wrote:
I'd prefer to concentrate on a bit
more revolutionary aspects
of the workplace...
we could play with the thought
how we picture a truly democratic workplace,
but I don't think that your project superwisors
and founders are really interested in that...
Sure they are
An early childhood memory is of coming home from church and repeating
what I had heard from the elderly Scottish minister:
"We all must wurrrk in this wurrrld."
It was something my siblings and I repeated to one another from time
to time in the ensuing years -- a bit of knowledge about
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From: Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but not a good enough point in respons the one I made;
humans are motivated more for pleasure/happiness
than reproduction. That's why babies have to look cute
and toy-like at least in our culturaly freer society
Even than quite a
Ray Harrell wrote,
The argument I have made on these lists for a number of years is that this
is all related to value. What one decides to value and pay money for.
Today in the U.S.
they have decided to pay the money they used to pay for the commodity milk,
for stocks and bonds instead. (see
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