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Which “system”?

• vouaobrasil 2y ago
  The global capitalist system, or the emergent behaviour that comes out of a mass of humanity addicted to technological development through wealth accumulation.
  • thejohnconway 2y ago
    Such a system can't want anything.
    • vouaobrasil 2y ago
      It's a term I use for emergent behaviour. And some philosophers of technology would disagree with you, such as the panpsychists. We are just a bag of cells and yet we speak of "wanting" things even though we might just be deterministic bags of blood.