EGONOMICS : How much affirmation do you need and How much do you get. The Supply of and demand for ego feedThe physical sciences have their methods for modeling “dynamics,” the interaction of lots of things.
We can measure changes in distance, mass, speed, and volume, both of individual things and of populations of them. In the physical sciences, however, there are no such qualities as good and bad, in other words, of value, worth, or usefulness.
Value is unavoidable in the life and social sciences. To talk about a biological trait as “functional” is to say that it is useful, of value to the organism, given the organism’s preferences.
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