Sunday, October 28, 2012

Object (Philosophy)

I am an object oriented thinker in relation to money.

This is a Wikipedia link titled "Object (Philosophy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_%28philosophy%29

     For a side trip diversion on a sub-link check out this Wikipedia description of
     "Metaphysics"   
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

            If you want to go far afield (but still remain in the ball park) go to this sub-sub
            link to a  Wikipedia description of a sub category of  Metaphysics call 
            "Ontology"  at  this link:
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

Returning to the original beginning of the line of thought here.......("Object Philosophy") toward the end of the description there is this intriguing link:
     
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map-territory_relation

Isn't this starting to look like the application of all this physical thought to UML as described by Wikipedia here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language

These Object Oriented Programs operating on computers are the core of our Information age. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

How quickly and easily the object called "Money" moves from a philosophical object concept to a computer system object. 

The problem is that somewhere along the line of implementation from the Genesis of the object Money to its implementation as a thing that performs a function of a medium of exchange it has somehow been stripped of its essential attributes and those attributes have all been assigned to the things it relates to in order to translate money into value.

The only remaining attribute of money is its properties as a number in an account.  All of its properties being those properties of the account, not the money in it.

The last and only attribute of money, a number, is wiped clean out conceptual existence by the fact that the number exists equally in two accounts: Debit and Credit. 

The single fundamental attribute of money existing in equal amounts in a balancing Debit and Credit account is Nothing, Zero or more literally: "No Thing"

Money, the thing that rules the world is even in its conceptually constructed fundamental state:  Nothing!

No wonder it is so hard for me to wrap my mind around money and encapsulate it as an object thing in an object oriented world!

My head aches!








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