An Evolutionary Economic Paradigm, with David Sloan Wilson
Musing Mind Podcast
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Scaling Up Functional Organization
The harmony and order that we associate with the word organism indeed has a movable boundary. The idea that nature left to itself becomes harmonious is actually fallacious. Most natural systems are like most laissez-faire economies. They're composed of species that are well adapted to survive and reproduce, often at cross-purposes with each other. And so for a natural system to become like an organism, just as with a human system requires this process of selection of the whole system.
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