Christian Kaiser

The Nature of Organization in Living Systems Living systems are thermodynamically open but closed in their organization. In other words, even though their material components turn over constantly, a material-independent property persists, which ...

Fantastic paper cuts to heart of new understanding in "physics of life" about importance of organization in organisms.

Organization in this sense is a different kind of idea for physics.

arxiv.org/abs/2503.03950

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Injustice, cruelty and violence ahead.

So many people would rather be subjects than citizens.

Some people insist that government should be run like a business. I wonder - what do they wish the equivalent of getting fired to be?

The U.S. has been following that doctrine for the last 40+ years.

It appears that we’re now pretty deep in one of the failure scenarios of that doctrine - namely where the government is entirely captured by business interests and social responsibility initiatives are dismantled. 2/2

The Friedman Doctrine asserts a business's primary responsibility should be to maximize profits for its shareholders. It argues that social responsibility initiatives and other ways to further the common good should be the responsibility of the government by way of regulations. 1/2