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Power Projection and Human Imagination | The Jason Lowery Series | Episode 6 (WiM219)

The "What is Money?" Show

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Using an Abstract Form of Power, You Can Design Systems That Will Have the Same Complex Emergent Behavior as Physical Power Based Resource Control Hierarchies

People think that using some form of sentactically and semantically complex language, you can create an abstract form of power. And this is a belief that's been in society for ten thousand years, and it's demonstrably incorrect,. We've never been able to escape from having to use physical power to achieve the complex emergent behavior of system security for all our resource control hierarchies. If it were possible to achieve the same level of systemic security using abstract power, hierarchies, istantiated in code or formally codified, then there would be no such thing as warfare., he says.

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