Computanomics
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Computanomics is a theory that tries to describe an economy based of the main axiom that the human brain is a computational device.
Note: this article is a modified version of the original post: How Can Computanomics Contribute To A Much Better Society
George Soros has been attempting to find new paradigms to describe Economics, Capitalism or Financial Crisis for years with his Theory of Reflexivity, which is charming but I think too complicated to be efficient.
On the one hand, we got the proponents of Capitalism who see it as the only system that allows anyone to do what one has freely chosen to do for a living (and hence maximize one's utility).
And on the other hand, we got the critics who see it as a system allowing the ones who own already something to own even more on the basis on what they already own (and hence find potentially themselves exponentially richer and richer, to the contrary of the poor who find themselves exponentially poorer and poorer...)
I'd say both are right but lack a lot of precision and exactness in their view.
The proponents of Capitalism are clearly unconvinced that improving the condition of other Society members and caring for them, directly impacts and improves (and arguably, actually improves in an exponential fashion) their own wealth and conditions for the very reason that they fail to see that our Society is in fact a Computational Society ruled by the Law of Accelerating Returns. Their egoistic greed is arguably naive.
The critics of Capitalism are clearly unconvinced that it's fair that there should be a direct correlation between work/merit/social utility and wealth for the very reason that they fail to see that each man and woman represents no less, no more a proper and a certain amount of computation within The Computational Society. Their ideal that everybody is "equal" is fallacious and naive too.
Computanomics is a paradigm to approach Economics, based on the main axiom that the human brain is a computational device running software. Other propositions (that are assumptions at this stage, but hopefully will be proven one day) state that Money is an approximation of Instruction and that our Society is a computational one, that is as per definition "a hierarchized and organized network (i.e. Society) of computational devices (i.e. human beings, electronic devices, machines, cyborgs, animals, robots etc...) exchanging literally Information and Instructions."
Related links:
- www.computanomics.org
- www.bunkersofism.com
