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December 12, 2012, 11:01:21 PM |
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...and resources harvesting and processing would be nutrition and metabolism, currency the blood circulating, communication the nervous system, then... wouldn't government be the brain?  |
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December 12, 2012, 11:04:53 PM |
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...and resources harvesting and processing would be nutrition and metabolism, currency the blood circulating, communication the nervous system, then... wouldn't government be the brain? More like a brain cancer, or a parasite. Alters the behavior in unpredictable, and often self-destructive ways. |
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December 13, 2012, 12:40:01 AM |
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...and resources harvesting and processing would be nutrition and metabolism, currency the blood circulating, communication the nervous system, then... wouldn't government be the brain? More like a brain cancer, or a parasite. Alters the behavior in unpredictable, and often self-destructive ways. Not even that - I think hookworms would be more accurate. Start off small, leech a little... eventually grow to the point that they kill the host. |
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December 13, 2012, 02:22:34 AM |
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internet == brain
government == cancer
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December 13, 2012, 02:49:45 AM |
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internet == brain
government == cancer
asdf == win. |
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December 13, 2012, 08:02:35 AM |
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internet == brain
no, nervous system, as said |
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December 13, 2012, 08:12:19 AM |
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Governments aren't smart enough to be the brain, the brain is the people, I vote for them being cancer too lol.
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December 13, 2012, 08:26:59 AM |
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...and resources harvesting and processing would be nutrition and metabolism, currency the blood circulating, communication the nervous system, then... wouldn't government be the brain? the blood circulating == trucks, cars, buses, trains, ships, airplanes really, what would the currency be? |
They're there, in their room.
Your mining rig is on fire, yet you're very calm.
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December 13, 2012, 09:56:17 AM |
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internet == brain
no, nervous system, as said The brain is part of the nervous system. |
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December 13, 2012, 10:12:21 AM |
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And matter/energy is part of either, so?
but yes, a government is big, extremely convoluted ball of communication paths, mostly merely serving itself, but this is where decisions are formed. Transmitters are its executive.
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December 13, 2012, 01:47:20 PM |
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...and resources harvesting and processing would be nutrition and metabolism, currency the blood circulating, communication the nervous system, then... wouldn't government be the brain? More like a brain cancer, or a parasite. Alters the behavior in unpredictable, and often self-destructive ways. Not even that - I think hookworms would be more accurate. Start off small, leech a little... eventually grow to the point that they kill the host. Almost? Wait a while, you'll see. |
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December 13, 2012, 02:01:00 PM |
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Its most like the immune system to protect the important parts of society.. Unfortunately it's turned into one of those autoimmune systems (over active and attacks your own body by mistake)
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December 13, 2012, 03:31:15 PM |
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...and resources harvesting and processing would be nutrition and metabolism, currency the blood circulating, communication the nervous system, then... wouldn't government be the brain? the blood circulating == trucks, cars, buses, trains, ships, airplanes really, what would the currency be? Organisms use multiple "currencies" for different purposes. Fat for long term high density storage, glucose for everyday activities, and ketone bodies in times of starvation. I think it is wrong to separate the "brain" and the nervous system. The brain is a location of highly dense nervous system activity that filters unimportant information and tries to predict the results of current/future actions on future results based on past experience. I'm not sure what the analogous thing in a society would be, not the government. The government is more like the immune system (as blackbison says), which has various tools to detect and deal with internal and external threats to the stability of the system. |
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December 17, 2012, 12:16:08 AM |
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Not even that - I think hookworms would be more accurate. Start off small, leech a little... eventually grow to the point that they kill the host.
ITT that sounds most accurate. Anyone calling it the brain is confused. It performs no functions in any way analogous to the brain. The market, the private sectors, would be the brain, if anything. That's where all the creation and intelligent activity takes place. All the G does is siphon resources and screw up the brain's healthy operations. |
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December 19, 2012, 05:23:28 AM |
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Possibly the government could be part of the brain. The lizard part. Eat, f*ck, fight, sh*t. That's about all it can manage.
I can see where some arguments could be made for the monkey part too. But it comes nowhere near the frontal lobes.
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December 19, 2012, 06:10:43 PM |
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I thought this thread said "Orgasm". I am not sure about the comparison with brain matter. In a brain each cell is stupid, but working together intelligence emerges. In government each person seems reasonably smart on their own, but together they are disastrously stupid. |
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December 19, 2012, 06:27:20 PM |
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Aren't cancers generally caused by "freedom loving" cells that decide "TO HELL with my neighbours, the authoritarian government, and the laa-dee-daa community! This is my turf and I'm going to homestead this place and build whatever the hell I want!" ??  Always those free radicals!  In government each person seems reasonably smart on their own
wha? but together they are disastrously stupid
well they do create order somewhat. Though the average life span of many a state is also quite similar to that of a human organism. |
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December 19, 2012, 07:01:17 PM |
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Aren't cancers generally caused by "freedom loving" cells that decide "TO HELL with my neighbours, the authoritarian government, and the laa-dee-daa community! This is my turf and I'm going to homestead this place and build whatever the hell I want!" ?? Always those free radicals! In government each person seems reasonably smart on their own
wha? but together they are disastrously stupid
well they do create order somewhat. Though the average life span of many a state is also quite similar to that of a human organism. I was thinking of something more like this classic. (updated) http://www.businessballs.com/businessballs_treeswing_pictures.htm |
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December 22, 2012, 02:29:39 AM |
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Its most like the immune system to protect the important parts of society.. Unfortunately it's turned into one of those autoimmune systems (over active and attacks your own body by mistake)
"...whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (protect the important parts of society), it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." - from the preamble of The Declaration of Independence |
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