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Herbert SimonAbout author
- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: american
- Born: June 15, 1916
- Died: February 9, 2001
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Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age.
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