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...when Confucius, the most famous and revered East Asian teacher, was asked by his students to tell them the meaning of athoritative personhood or jen - the conceptual pivot of his entire philosophy - he refrained from ever giving them a a definition. In diametric opposition to the Platonic insistence on defining essences, Confucius related paradigmatic stories. Knowing what a word means is not knowing what it signifies, but how to conduct oneself in situations where it is used.

Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age. By Peter D. Hershock .p. 6

see also Eleanor Rosch, http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/erosch2007.pdf

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Based on patterns of reciprocity, such societies ( vernacular) build for use, not for profit. Moreover, because the tools used are both few and "primitive," there is little hierarchical division of labor. What is most important throughout is coordination - the ability to work together, to mesh efforts, accomplishing as a community what no individual could.
This changes as sophisticated tools and their associated technologies come into play. Building technologies lead to a specialization of labor, to a separation of tool making and tool using, a disjunction of designing and constructing. Technologies of control individuate effort.

=== this is where and when the money technology emerges

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p.49

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also, compare to brainstorm: feeling good despite poor efficiency.