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