Abstract

ROMAN, Heitor Graton; SOUZA, Marilsa Miranda de  and  VAZ, Vinicius Rezende Carretoni. THE THEORY OF FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS AND INTERNAL DYNAMICS IN CAPITAL: an Approach of Neurophysiology to the Critique of Political Economy. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2024, vol.14, e024025.  Epub June 12, 2024. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/re.v14i1.2597.

Marx in the first volume of Capital establishes at different moments biological metaphors when describing factory cooperation as a "laboring organism." Over 50 years after his death, the Soviet neurophysiologist Piotr Kuzmich Anokhin developed the Theory of Functional Systems, aimed at explaining the integration of physiological processes in organisms according to their adaptive results. This study aims to compare and approximate both processes in their different elementary mechanisms that guarantee each respective systemic integration. To achieve this, we conducted a literature review considering these two authors and the complementary works of Engels and Luria. The result of this research highlights the formal proximity between the continuous adaptation process of any functional system and the economic organization of industry to produce surplus value.

Keywords : Functional system; Capital; Cooperation..

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