From: Ian Goddard (Ian@Goddard.net)
Date: Wed Jan 20 1999 - 23:55:01 MST
At 09:17 PM 1/20/99 -0700, Freespeak wrote:
>I'm very interested in your idea that "the social entity...
>communicates with itself." Please tell me more. Have you written
>an article or paper on this?
IAN: No. As I see it, central planners don't work
since the planning that directs the prices and the
allocation of all resources requires a mind too
large for any planner or even group of planners
to comprehend. It requires too much brain power
for anyone to compute. It requires the mass-mind
of the collective entity that is "the market."
The invisible hand is the invisible planner.
I like "invisible" since it runs the fine line
between what we're both saying, it is yet isn't!
>I'd like to add a section on this to #TL05AB: ANTHROPOMORPHISM
>AND RELATED PHENOMENA <http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl05ab.htm>.
>I'll properly attribute your contribution to you, or attribute
>it to "anonymous," if you prefer.
IAN: Thanks! I'll put it on my agenda.
>(I'll also be adding a reference to "Cloud Veil Theory"
><http://www.consciousness.com/p3.html>.)
IAN: A similar line of reasoning that says
a group entity is an illusion is found the
Buddhist view that the mind (a group entity)
is an illusion, and thus seeing a self in the
mind is like seeing phantoms in the clouds,
which I believe to be a truthful analysis.
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