The Origins of Economic Processes: A Mathematical Framework for Information-Seeking Behaviour as the Foundation of All Commerce

Kundai Farai Sachikonye

Abstract

This paper establishes a unified mathematical framework that demonstrates that all economic activity, from prehistoric fire-circle resource coordination to modern digital commerce, represents manifestations of identical underlying informationseeking processes. Through rigorous analysis of consciousness as a Biological Maxwell Demon (BMD), fire-circle evolution, and cross-cultural economic patterns, we prove that commerce emerged inevitably from the fundamental architecture of human information processing. We demonstrate mathematically that there is no qualitative difference between ancient and modern economic systems—only variations in information transfer methodology. Our framework solves longstanding puzzles in economic anthropology by showing that culture itself represents an emergent informationseeking optimization system, making economic behaviour not a learnt social convention but an inevitable consequence of conscious architecture. The implications fundamentally transform our understanding of economic origin, market behaviour, and optimal system design.

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Corresponding Author

Kundai Farai Sachikonye, Department of Theoretical Economics, Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Citation

Sachikonye, K, S. (2025). The Origins of Economic Processes: A Mathematical Framework for Information-Seeking Behaviour as the Foundation of All Commerce. Econ Dev Glob Mark, 1(1), 01-33.