I like the idea of banks being the means by which coins distribute themselves. Of course, being inanimate and not capable of evolution, it's a hard case to make. Although perhaps we can say that people and our sense of pecuniary aesthetics is the means coins have developed to evolve themselves.
Rabies makes more sense. I think that argument actually works.
Here's a Google+ post that talks about something similar in fungi. Here's a piece of it.
-- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles Google voice: 747-999-5105 On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Russ, Corporations are termite mounds, my friend. Nick From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Russ Abbott I like the idea of banks being the means by which coins distribute themselves. Of course, being inanimate and not capable of evolution, it's a hard case to make. Although perhaps we can say that people and our sense of pecuniary aesthetics is the means coins have developed to evolve themselves. Rabies makes more sense. I think that argument actually works. Here's a Google+ post that talks about something similar in fungi. Here's a piece of it.
-- Russ Abbott Professor, Computer Science vita: http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote: The recent interview with E.O. Wilson in the New Yorker pissed me off so bad I had to write them a letter. Since the letter won’t be published, I am tempted to inflict it on all of you. Thanks for your patience, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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