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cwaidele Posted: Wed, Feb 8 2012 11:19 AM

 

Hello, I am looking for some help from any and all who are  interested in collaborating with me on a project I have started. It is to extrapolate from Mises’ Human Action an a priori based thought experiment that intends to prove that all living things economize and that they do so following rules analogous in definition and structure to Mises’ action axioms. I say analogous since the arguments deal not with conscious thought-out human action but with the organizational structure of more reflexive and possibly completely autonomous responses.

In order to avoid confusion, I want to delineate this project from what Mises intended to only apply  to humans. Even though the terminology is the same as that used in economics the terms when applied to non-humans take on slightly different significance and use, yet in form are very similar, if not the same.

For those who want further clarification, I will give you an example:

Boolean algebra is a math dealing with logic which is used to design the internal workings of computer logic. It only recognizes the values 1 for true and 0 for false, - (negative sign) for not * for ”and” and + for “or”. With that and parenthesis a parallel algebra is designed complete with distributive, commutative, etc rules yet with a very reduced application and scope.


Charles Boole could have designed and implemented very different symbols to represent his math, since it is not, strictly speaking, the algebra we know. Yet, by using some of the same symbols he made it very easy for someone comfortable with traditional algebra to be able to start working very quickly with his “algebra.”


What do I hope to accomplish by this? There are many potentially positive outcomes from pursuing this line of inquiry. One, it will help build what Gregory Bateson called “binocular vision” because it adds different logical paths to reinforce and substantiate similar ideas. Another is that just as Boolean math allowed computer logic and sophistication to be designed long before there was the technical ability to implement it, a core definition of animal and cellular interaction can help by laying a foundation that changes the locus of inquiry from a class of animals or cells to individually responding ones based on formally defined criteria.

Scientists spend a great deal of time exploring the HOW, chemically or otherwise, to try to come up with WHAT living organisms do. We are focusing here more on a formal definition of some basic rules of interactions, which may be able to help consolidate some of the current findings.

I have created the very simple beginnings of a blog site called economizingworld.com which will allow different groups interested in different aspects to participate and collaborate within their own groups. Please forgive it’s very basic nature as I just started it.

I have laid out a core main argument that I hope to be challenged on so that it can be vetted and if it passes mustard I want to try to involve people from all walks of life to participate in what interests them the most. I hope this sparks interest in some of you and that we can build a team that will be willing to take this further.

 

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