Benjamin Cain
Oct 6, 2022

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Oh, so experimenting on humans is fine then, because we're just part of nature. No emergent properties like intelligence, freewill, consciousness, or feelings of pain? No objections then to Nazi experiments, for example? We're all just physical, material objects, right? So experimenting on a person would be like experimenting on a rock. No major difference at all.

Is that ludicrous reductionism supposed to justify the economist's overuse of math, as though an economy were just a physical structure not filled with emergent properties such as personhood and sociality?

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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