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The Evolution of Knowledge
In capitalism these things compete with each other and that this is also a type of evolution of knowledge or they would call it intelligence so the particular groups also have this sort of energy capture dissipation thing well that's true but now we're getting a bit further from the theory being explanatory. The amount of information in the distribution of dollars in an economy is enormous by human standards but it's absolutely piffling by the standards of biology which is itself piffling, he says. He adds: "Why that small amount of dissipation should be controlling the larger amount is not explained"