Money is Biological: Exploring Money’s Emergence, Evolution, Innovation and Future

By Tiisetso Maloma

This is a working draft and is unedited. It is released with the intention to solicit critique and incite engagement with the topics.

 

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"Money Is Biological" gives frameworks for understanding money as a biological construct and thus explores the evolution of money through an evolutionary lens.

 

It makes the argument that money is a biological construct in as much as a chair or an aeroplane are innovated by humans with their unique biological psychology – and also chairs and aeroplanes being biological constructs.

 

As much as a chair or an aeroplane has a utility for humans, money plays its part as a utility and solves fascinating biological problems presented by man's biological ingenuity of inventing into multiplicity.

 

The fascinating problems entail men's psycho-biological ability to innovate diverse utilities progressively, accumulatively and oftentimes of novelty – and money becoming the emergent solution to trading of those innovations.

 

"Money is Biological" trails how biology had the action potential to enable money since over 3.8 billion years ago.

It attends to the evolution of neurons and the Central Nervous System (brain and spinal cord).

 

It trails the human brain metaphoring in different directions: creating spears, chairs, aeroplanes, internet, romantic love, marriage, loving ice cream, and, all other physical, virtual, social or cultural innovations.

 

"Money is Biological" illustrates money as a solution to the biological problem of the brain's active inclination to innovate and create diverse products: It is a medium of exchanging these innovations – a liquid innovation that can finance and purchase them; and it stores value even if arbitrarily.

 

It further goes into the future of money and given today's evolved currencies such as decentralized currencies like Bitcoin.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tiisetso Maloma
• Release date: Apr 30, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224736157

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MONEY IS BIOLOGICAL

Exploring Money’s Emergence, Evolution, Innovation and Future

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By Tiisetso Maloma

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MONEY IS BIOLOGICAL

By Tiisetso Maloma

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First published 23 December 2023

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MONEY IS BIOLOGICAL

Exploring Money’s Emergence, Evolution, Innovation and Future

Copyright

Content

Books by Tiisetso Maloma

The author, Tiisetso Maloma

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About the book

Framework disclaimer

Caution

Preface

1. Human animals and their innovation

Working definition of innovation

Evidence of human progressive innovation

Let’s go back and keep it simple

2. Human’s expanding innovations match consuming inclinations in expanse

3. Thy speaketh into existence – Language

They learned speak from where?

Language and money in aid

Talk the swim with boats/rafts

The start at simple

The party rocker in abstraction and semiotics

I am knapping, don’t talk to me; however, it is hard

Conclusion of chapter

4. The brain of money

You brain can just imagine

The brain, the brain, particularly the human brain

What the brain is functionally: Why did the brain evolve

Evolution of the human brain in recent times

The human brain in schematic sense

A little swim in brain circuitry

Ingredients of abstraction and metaphoring: the brain is conservative and expansive

5. Exchange medium for biology’s human inventions | Money mirrors biology

Medium of exchange

Money as a store of value

Summation

6. When money evolved arguments – All money is barter

I posited barter as reciprocity

Hierarchy

Definitions try to explain the phenomenon – but do not dictate it

Summary

7. Endnotes

Books by Tiisetso Maloma

Innovate Like Elon Musk

Forget the Business Plan Use This Short Model

Innovate the Next

The Anxious Entrepreneur

Understanding the 4th Industrial Revolution & Innovation Easily

Future of Township Economies

Township Biz Adjacent

Tales of an African Entrepreneur

Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism

90 Days to Create & Launch

Money Is Biological

The author, Tiisetso Maloma

Tiisetso Maloma is a South African entrepreneur, product creator and author with ten published books.

His role as an author and speaker revolves around providing simple frameworks to understand entrepreneurship, innovation, economics, consumer behaviour, critical thinking, and rhetoric.

He is also the founder of Bula Buka Publishers, 94 Brands Shop and Startup Picnic Academy.

Throughout his career, Maloma has consistently specialized in the creation and launch of products.

It is believed by Tiisetso that this is the easiest, cheapest, and quickest time in history to be an entrepreneur and innovator, a belief also reflected in the subtitle of his tenth book, 90 Days to Create & Launch.

Among Maloma's books are Innovate Like Elon Musk, The Anxious Entrepreneur, Future of Township Economies, Innovate The Next, and Forget the Business Plan Use This Short Model.

Tiisetso has developed various business models and frameworks, including The EBC Business Model, The Human Greed Pyramid, and Product Adjacent Possible Success Factors.

Over the past 14 years, he has played a significant role in the creation of over a hundred products, resulting in thousands of sales.

Tiisetso Maloma has made noteworthy contributions to the South African publishing industry as a pioneering publisher and investor in the genre of diary chronicle books through Bula Buka Publishers. The publishing house has released titles such as Diary of a Cheating Wife, Diary of a Side Chick, Chronicles of a Slay Queen, and Diary of a Zulu Girl, among many others.

Maloma's professional endeavours span multiple industries, including accounting, clothing, publishing, tech, media, and events.

Tiisetso has collaborated with various organizations such as Standard Bank, The Innovation Hub, Sappi, ABSA, The Hope Factory, Transnet, and the City of Tshwane.

His work has been featured on The Huffington Post, CNBC Africa, How We Made It In Africa, Under 30 CEO, and Destiny Man.

In addition, Maloma has founded and co-founded businesses including Bula Buka, Startup Picnic Academy, Gabble Heights Clothing, eKhaya Moji, and Defuse Anxiety.

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Please visit www.tiisetsomaloma.co.za/about

About the book

This is a working draft and is unedited. It is released with the intention to solicit critique and incite engagement with the topics.

- - -

Money Is Biological gives frameworks for understanding money as a biological construct and thus explores the evolution of money through an evolutionary lens.

It makes the argument that money is a biological construct in as much as a chair or an aeroplane are innovated by humans with their unique biological psychology – and also chairs and aeroplanes being biological constructs.

As much as a chair or an aeroplane has a utility for humans, money plays its part as a utility and solves fascinating biological problems presented by man’s biological ingenuity of inventing into multiplicity.

The fascinating problems entail men’s psycho-biological ability to innovate diverse utilities progressively, accumulatively and oftentimes of novelty – and money becoming the emergent solution to trading of those innovations.

Money is Biological trails how biology had the action potential to enable money since over 3.8 billion years ago.

It attends to the evolution of neurons and the Central Nervous System (brain and spinal cord).

It trails the human brain metaphoring in different directions: creating spears, chairs, aeroplanes, internet, romantic love, marriage, loving ice cream, and, all other physical, virtual, social or cultural innovations.

Money is Biological illustrates money as a solution to the biological problem of the brain’s active inclination to innovate and create diverse products: It is a medium of exchanging these innovations – a liquid innovation that can finance and purchase them; and it stores value even if arbitrarily.

It further goes into the future of money and given today’s evolved currencies such as decentralized currencies like Bitcoin.

Framework disclaimer

The primary purpose of this book is to form frameworks of understanding.

And with these frameworks, you can have a frame to understand money and its evolutionary genesis, progression and necessity to facilitate the human ingenuity of innovation and/or invention.

With these frames, there are instances where I might have gotten the genealogy of events and history wrong. However, the book will still give you