Difference between revisions of "Worldview"
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* How do we know? | * How do we know? | ||
# Explain why science is a singular basis for consilience (culture cleaner) | # Explain why science is a singular basis for consilience (culture cleaner) | ||
| − | # Make case for valuescience | + | # Make case for valuescience (Schrom; quotations from past advocates for a science of value) |
# Define value. Show prediction is nexus. Value meaningful only to extent resting on successful prediction. | # Define value. Show prediction is nexus. Value meaningful only to extent resting on successful prediction. | ||
# Predicate behavior upon, and explain it with ideas about value | # Predicate behavior upon, and explain it with ideas about value | ||
| − | # Map different from territory. Humans numerous and powerful. Errors increasingly costly. Must close gap to thrive, survive. | + | # Map different from territory. Humans numerous and powerful. Errors increasingly costly. Must close gap to thrive, survive. (climate change) |
* What is? (AAAS, Huang twins) | * What is? (AAAS, Huang twins) | ||
# Matterenergy, spacetime, universe, particles, elements, forces, laws | # Matterenergy, spacetime, universe, particles, elements, forces, laws | ||
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# Accuracy (science; other) | # Accuracy (science; other) | ||
# Pertinence (misperceived threat stats) | # Pertinence (misperceived threat stats) | ||
| − | # Signal-to-noise ratio (30% porn) | + | # Signal-to-noise ratio (30% of web traffic is porn) |
| − | # Nature/human ecology (Club of Rome; IPCC; | + | # Nature/human ecology (Club of Rome; IPCC; Sixth Extinction) |
| − | # Artifact (AI prognosticators e.g., Urban) | + | # Artifact (AI prognosticators, e.g., Urban, Bostrom) |
# Society | # Society | ||
| − | # Dominator/Partnership (Kelly) | + | # Dominator/Partnership (Eisler,Kelly) |
| − | # Emergence of “System” and “Megamachine” | + | # Emergence of “System” and “Megamachine” (Dunn, Mumford) |
| − | # Technocornucopian/Transitional & Multinational corporate/Local personal | + | # Technocornucopian/Transitional & Multinational corporate/Local, personal |
* What do we want? | * What do we want? | ||
# Describe vision for self, society, Earth | # Describe vision for self, society, Earth | ||
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# consciousness/technology | # consciousness/technology | ||
# What ask/offer? | # What ask/offer? | ||
| − | # Portfolio of selves | + | # Portfolio of selves akin to investment portfolio |
| − | # trade-offs | + | # trade-offs among satisfactions of different levels of Maslow's Hierarchy |
# How become better able to realize vision through conscious evolution of self? | # How become better able to realize vision through conscious evolution of self? | ||
# Genetic | # Genetic | ||
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# Experiential | # Experiential | ||
# Replace flawed bases for knowing value | # Replace flawed bases for knowing value | ||
| − | # Science-based | + | # Science-based religing (connectedness, ethics) |
# Biophysical economics (TruCost; Nordhaus coal) | # Biophysical economics (TruCost; Nordhaus coal) | ||
| − | # Seignorage money system | + | # Consequences of debt money (Eisenstadt, Hayek, Fisher) |
| − | # Political and moral philosophy | + | # Seignorage money system (Worgl, Greco) |
| + | # Political and moral philosophy (redefining and repositioning "-isms") | ||
# Literal, integrated capitalism/incomism | # Literal, integrated capitalism/incomism | ||
# Literal, integrated communism/individualism | # Literal, integrated communism/individualism | ||
| + | # Social contract: how many people, for how long, relying upon what inputs, using what technologies, to generate what outputs, allocating work and reward how, to what ends, with what mechanism for contract amendment? | ||
# How evolve visions | # How evolve visions | ||
Revision as of 18:46, 17 January 2017
- Define consilience and explain how it is possible and why it is necessary
- How do we know?
- Explain why science is a singular basis for consilience (culture cleaner)
- Make case for valuescience (Schrom; quotations from past advocates for a science of value)
- Define value. Show prediction is nexus. Value meaningful only to extent resting on successful prediction.
- Predicate behavior upon, and explain it with ideas about value
- Map different from territory. Humans numerous and powerful. Errors increasingly costly. Must close gap to thrive, survive. (climate change)
- What is? (AAAS, Huang twins)
- Matterenergy, spacetime, universe, particles, elements, forces, laws
- Solar system, Sun, Earth, moon, life, biosphere, matter cycles, energy flows
- Humans, mind, society, technology, artifact
- How did it come to be?
- Evolution of universe, Earth, life, human life, society, to c. 200,000 years BCE (Harvey)
- Evolution of global ecosystem for most recent 200,000 years (Harvey)
- Human hunting/gathering, agriculture, urbanization, centralization of power and rise of social “system,” specialization, technological development (Eisler, Mumford, Urban, Heilbroner)
- Energy and other resource depletion, proliferation of hazards, disruption of processes, overshoot, complexity (Catton, Tainter)
- Human physical and psychological characteristics (Diamond, Shepard)
- Where are we going? (status and trends of factors in ecological framework)
- Mental and physical health (Shepard; life expectancy at different ages)
- Information
- Accuracy (science; other)
- Pertinence (misperceived threat stats)
- Signal-to-noise ratio (30% of web traffic is porn)
- Nature/human ecology (Club of Rome; IPCC; Sixth Extinction)
- Artifact (AI prognosticators, e.g., Urban, Bostrom)
- Society
- Dominator/Partnership (Eisler,Kelly)
- Emergence of “System” and “Megamachine” (Dunn, Mumford)
- Technocornucopian/Transitional & Multinational corporate/Local, personal
- What do we want?
- Describe vision for self, society, Earth
- Selfish gene (Dawkins)
- Meme machines (Dennett, Blackmore)
- Status in social hierarchy
- Maslow
- How can we get it?
- accommodation/manipulation
- consciousness/technology
- What ask/offer?
- Portfolio of selves akin to investment portfolio
- trade-offs among satisfactions of different levels of Maslow's Hierarchy
- How become better able to realize vision through conscious evolution of self?
- Genetic
- Epigenetic
- Experiential
- Replace flawed bases for knowing value
- Science-based religing (connectedness, ethics)
- Biophysical economics (TruCost; Nordhaus coal)
- Consequences of debt money (Eisenstadt, Hayek, Fisher)
- Seignorage money system (Worgl, Greco)
- Political and moral philosophy (redefining and repositioning "-isms")
- Literal, integrated capitalism/incomism
- Literal, integrated communism/individualism
- Social contract: how many people, for how long, relying upon what inputs, using what technologies, to generate what outputs, allocating work and reward how, to what ends, with what mechanism for contract amendment?
- How evolve visions
