Wednesday, March 17, 2010

General Equilibrium: Fair Distribution of the Soul

If we believe that a soul is eternal and exists forever, how do we account for the ever increasing population size? Are the souls being split and therefore souls in people are tending to zero?

Question that recurred to me in today's Micro class- fair Pareto Optimal distribution anyone? ;)

P.S. The concept's taken from somewhere- don't remember the author or the book.

1 comment:

ad libber said...

Answer occurred to me in class. Souls exist eternally, physical forms change. So all the insects and animals and birds who have been good are also born as humans. Perhaps the increasing population can be explained by a morally upright animal kingdom?