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GliderGuider

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3. Sure - it's the Odum-Lotka Maximum Power Principle at work

Reply to kristopher (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 24, 2013, 10:46 PM

Dec 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_principle

Suitably colored with human value judgments of course.

It looks like this behavior may be built into the structure of DNA itself, given that all living organisms display self-interested growth-oriented behavior patterns. Including humans.

And this innate behavior is naturally used as the template for building human societies. In turn, our societies become templates for building our globalized, techno-industrial, cybernetic civilization.

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