Nature, Abundance, and Needs
This chapter ties human needs and scarcity together. In a practical world driven by economics and competition, Marshall’s Laws provide the most satisfactory level at which the expenditure of resource(s) to satisfy any residual need(s) are terminated. At this level, the accumulation of knowledge to seek any further gratification also stops.
The knowledge-level programs address a large number of complex queries in any conceivable domain of enquiry by fragmenting the “objects” into tinier and slighter objects (knowledge operands) and the queries into tinier and slighter queries (knowledge opcodes or kopcs) until the solution/answer is reached. New objects may thus be synthesized, and new processes (from related objects) ...
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