Re:GitHub was talking to Google but went with Microsoft instead
by wwweston on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:05PM
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> Careful there. There is no consensus that humans do have souls.
"Soul" doesn't have to mean "immortal ghost." Humans have souls tautologically; the word is one way of trying to get at something about our experience with ourselves and others. Personality doesn't quite cover it, psyche might be closer, but soul has the depth.
That said, I agree with the premise that human organizations can have a culture that starts to border if not overlap conceptually with "soul."
Re:GitHub was talking to Google but went with Microsoft instead
by some_account on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:24PM
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Let us know when scientists tell us we got a soul :) That will never happen. Nor because it's not true, we do (i think so anyway) but because it's not something you can find by digging around in the body. By definition, the soul is not physical.
Careful there. There is no consensus that humans do have souls. Personality might have been a better word to pick, since what you are describing better fits the idea of personality, but that is dangerous as well.
But regardless of the specific term we want that separates individuals from companies, there is no denying that companies are more then the sum of the individuals they are made of. Group psyche has been proven to prevail through replacement of every member. Though one should not jump to the opposite conclusion either—that companies’s behavior remains static through a change in leadership.