To Paul Sas re Society of Mind
Sections 28.2-3 of Society of Mind address the question of mental marketplaces, so he didn’t ignore that type of theory, he just didn’t like it.
His feeling I think is that quantitative competition between agents is stupid, and real intelligence comes from making manager agents that turn the competition into something more cooperative. That is how you get complex patterns of thought, not from different drives competing with each other.
Not sure he was right about that. If you are familiar with the work of George Ainslie, it is almost exactly what you would get if you crossed society of mind with economic thinking.