Interview with the Greatest Living Philosopher in Netanya: The Human as a Market

The cognitive victory of capitalism paints the human psyche as a competitive economic system. Learning systems such as evolution and the brain are understood as free markets where men compete for women and neurons in one layer compete for neurons in the next layer. In this way, the competitiveness in the brain is what creates learning, just as competitiveness is the evolutionary engine. On thoughts competing for pleasure and motivation in a Netanya-based brain, one illustrious thinker fueled by countless bananas

Fish market, the replacement for the giant Hobbesian Leviathan  (Source)

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Answer: Enough with your questions already. The question that's important to understand is what exactly is still waiting to be centralized? The internet, social networks, applications, and more - delude us into thinking that the world is moving towards increasing decentralization. No more central communication. On the other hand, there's only one Google, not many competing search engines. One Facebook, not many competing social networks. In various fields, mainly one large platform is created, which only grows stronger. What's the reason for this paradox?

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Answer: The reason is that Google is not a company, but a market: the market of websites on the internet competing for links from other sites (and particularly for height in search results). And Facebook is the social market where people compete for likes and attention, and there's also a market for applications, etc. The internet itself is a market - there are no competing internets. When it comes to the market itself, there's a huge advantage to centralization - to one big market, while diversity is found within the market. We have one big brain, not several competing brains. This suggests that centralizing processing in one network has an advantage over true decentralization. But is the brain an organized monopoly of thought? Is the brain communist, where each part contributes according to its ability and receives according to its needs? No, that wouldn't allow for true flexibility and creativity. And that's exactly the difference between intelligence and inferior animals. The brain is a market of ideas, a spiritual market. Neurons compete for the attention of other neurons. Thoughts compete for the brain's attention. That's how it works. This is what distinguishes humans from apes - internal spiritual capitalism. And in the same way, every species in nature is a market, and this is the source of the separation of life into many species in evolution, otherwise one could imagine continuous evolution without species - and without sexuality, which is the transaction within the same species between sellers (males) and buyers (females). Pleasure is nature's currency. It follows that as a general phenomenon, or at least in every case we know in nature or culture - efficient learning is built on markets.

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Answer: This is bad news for different countries, but not because of international organizations. The state will disintegrate from within, not from outside, on its way to becoming a market where countries compete for citizens, like companies compete for customers, and not like workers compete for employers. When the small compete for the big it's bad, and when the big compete for the small it's good. Additional markets that haven't yet turned into networks are matchmaking, housing, and employment. What turns a market into a network is the connections between different sellers among themselves, between different buyers among themselves, and not just the connections between sellers and buyers. For example, the fact that websites put links to other websites made the search engine efficient, and so it is with Facebook where both those who give likes and comment and those who write posts, content consumers and content producers, are all connected.

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Answer: Therefore, what's needed is a dating site where there are connections between women themselves and between men themselves, for passing recommendations and counter-recommendations, for passing men between women (I dated him and he might suit you, or who heard about him in my network and what do others who dated him say), and vice versa, meaning to increase matchmaking through a third party, hence creating reputation and different network behavior, and improving market information. When a jerk guy screws up - there will be fewer jerks. The same goes for landlords and buyers, and employers and employees. A market with horizontal connections and not just vertical ones is a sophisticated market where reputation is created and therefore better behavior from all sides. So what else can become a global market? First and foremost, the market of countries, where citizens can choose a country regardless of their geographical location. This will be the real solution to wars. Nationalism will die. Dying for a country will seem as ridiculous as dying for Coca-Cola. Or for your insurance company, which is the true meaning of a country and its economic and moral justification alike - the entity that transfers risks from the individual to the collective.

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Answer: Understanding the brain as a market will have enormous philosophical, political, and moral significance. This is the spiritual revolution that awaits us. And this will be the sweet revenge on socialism. We are a free market. That's who we are, our brain. Capitalism is me. With its failures and diseases and successes. And indeed one of its failures is embodied in the minds of socialists and other fundamentalists - the formation of a monopoly on thought that reduces competitiveness and therefore efficiency, to the point of mental bankruptcy. This is the problem with dogmas - the monopoly. There are also minds suffering from duopoly, like religious Zionists or social democrats. Not everyone has a sophisticated and competitive market like in the illustrious Netanya-based mind of your humble servant.

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Answer: The truth is, there isn't a price low enough in my mind for fools like you. Farewell and thanks for the bananas.