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...d his enemies. He should have felt and acted with responsibility towards his fellow human beings, even towards those who wronged him greatly. But ... ...ucers exploit Truman's life shamelessly and remorselessly in the ugliest display of human vices possible. The Director indulges in his control-mania... ...zing movie, "The Matrix", a breed of AI computers takes over the world. It harvests human embryos in laboratories called "fields". It then feeds th... ...species" derives its energy needs from the electricity produced by the billions of human bodies thus preserved. A sophisticated, all-pervasive, com... ... "The Matrix" generates a "world" inhabited by the consciousness of the unfortunate human batteries. Ensconced in their shells, they see themselves ... ...e crown of creation with complete dominion over nature and the right to exploit its resources unreservedly. Similar, veiled, sentiments can be found... ...ul course of action. Utilitarians regard nature as a set of exhaustible and scarce resources and deal with their optimal allocation from a human po... ...ch as "sustainable development". Even the costs of replacing or repairing depleted resources and natural assets are difficult to determine. Effort... ...ated data. The multiple authors of "People and Ecosystems", published by the World Resources Institute, the World Bank and the United Nations concl...
...in themselves or in their environment. We call these vectors "Negentropic Agents". Human Beings are Negentropic Agents gone awry. Now, through its ... ...aining the number of other Entropic Agents on Earth or by reducing the numbers of humans. To achieve the latter (which is the path of least resi... ...e path of least resistance and a typical self-regulatory mechanism), Nature causes humans to begin to internalize and assimilate the Entropy that t... ... series of intricate and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in th... ...rs, famine, diseases and to a decrease in the populace (and, thus, in the number of human Entropic Agents). The Assimilative Mechanism Diseases, ol... ...mena yield negative demographic effects directly related to the entropic actions of humans. Examples: excessive use of antibiotics leads to drug- re... ...type invariably develop at different rates, thus preventing an all-out scramble for resources and maladaptive changes. This is known as "mosaic ev... .... It is reminiscent of the "invisible hand of the market" that allegedly allocates resources optimally among various players and agents. Martin Now... ...ed, digested, or assimilated"? Is it a general rule that, given sufficient time and resources, the simple can become complex and the complex reduced...