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Quotes from Boundaries of Order: Private Property of a Social System — Butler D. Shaffer

1935–2019 United States

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The efforts of one organism to live at the expense of another is, when confined to members of the same species, a form of cannibalism.

Boundaries of Order: Private Property of a Social System (2009)

For our world to be predictable and controllable, it must be mechanistic and linear in nature. But, the illusions of the behaviorists to the contrary notwithstanding, there is nothing less mechanistic and linear in nature than the human mind, whose intricacies and capacities have yet to be matched by even the most sophisticated computers.

Boundaries of Order: Private Property of a Social System (2009)

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