John Davis wrote:  
>Don Ross argues in Economic Theory and Cognitive Science that human  
>selves are not economic agents, as most economists think, but are rather  
>communities of many subpersonal agents engaged in evolutionary games who  
>interact in evolutionary games with other human selves communities of  
>many subpersonal agents engaged in evolutionary games.  Phil Mirowski  
>argues in Machine Dreams that the economic individual is a cybernetic  
>organism without detectable interface between computational machine and  
>human qualities or between real and simulacra.    
  
  
Well, I think Don Ross and Phil ought to read Mortimer Adler's THE DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND
THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES--or at least the sentient part of each of them should.  I do agree
that the utility function is an interesting math artifact.
  
Sam Bostaph