tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14834651.post8092556087730168002..comments2024-02-12T05:57:37.295-05:00Comments on Dude, where's the Dharma?: A bit more 'bout EquilibriumDudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849866517236034909noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14834651.post-14594143593153964622009-01-27T17:49:00.000-05:002009-01-27T17:49:00.000-05:00Dude:Thanks for your reply. Your Zen account is r...Dude:<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your reply. Your Zen account is right on target, but the very fact that zen is the most appropriate language available to describe human reality is sad commentary on the state of social science. The Problem of Method is still sucking all the oxygen out of the room.<BR/><BR/>I'm finding the word "equilibrium" increasingly misleading because of the distracting Sethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16486234948199900568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14834651.post-72687754001207469382009-01-27T15:01:00.000-05:002009-01-27T15:01:00.000-05:00Thanks for the comment.As I wrote, my argument is ...Thanks for the comment.<BR/><BR/>As I wrote, my argument is not that human awareness is "at equilibrium" but that it tends thereto, sometimes quite violently from a state of, in hindsight, confusion.<BR/><BR/>The Soros quote to which I refer is, "find the trend whose premise is false <I>and bet against it.</I>" Betting against the trend whose premise is false is a bet on equilibrating awareness.Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06849866517236034909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14834651.post-74068122252130835072009-01-27T12:04:00.000-05:002009-01-27T12:04:00.000-05:00Dude, while I often find myself in agreement with ...Dude, while I often find myself in agreement with you, in this case I differ. I'm a believer in the Austrian school, which posits that the economy is merely the aggregation of the actions of all individuals within said economy. Therefore, equilibrium at the macro level implies equilibrium at the micro level (if micro sums to macro).<BR/><BR/>And I ask myself, when am I at equilibrium? Sitting Conorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16598881429206035110noreply@blogger.com