Abstract
Logan in his book The Extended Mind developed the hypothesis that language, culture, and technology and can be construed as organisms that evolve and reproduce themselves. This idea is extended in two ways. First by showing that organization, science, economics and technology can also be construed as organisms that evolve and reproduce themselves. Secondly we make use of the notion of teleodynamics that Deacon introduced and developed in his book Incomplete Nature to explain the nature of life, sentience, mind and a self that acts in its own interest. It is suggested that culture, language, organization, science, economics and technology (CLOSET) like living organisms also act in their own self-interest, are self-correcting and are to a certain degree autonomous even though they are obligate symbionts dependent on their human hosts for the energy that sustains them. Specifically it will be argued that the elements of CLOSET are essentially teleodynamic systems, which Deacon defines as “self-creating, self-maintaining, self-reproducing, individuated systems.”
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