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Philosophy

ZombieHorde

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3. Organizations are made of communication.

Reply to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 03:40 PM

Jul 2013

Communication is created by our imaginations. The noises and written symbols are real, but their meaning is entirely imaginary. So organizations are strictly imaginary since they don't exist outside of our imaginations.

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