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* Define consilience and explain how it is possible and why it is necessary  
 
* Define consilience and explain how it is possible and why it is necessary  
 
* How do we know?  
 
* How do we know?  
# Explain why science is a singular basis for consilience (culture cleaner)
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# Explain why science is a singular basis for consilience
# Make case for valuescience (Schrom; quotations from past advocates for a science of value)
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# Make case for valuescience
 
# 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. (climate change)
 
# Map different from territory. Humans numerous and powerful. Errors increasingly costly. Must close gap to thrive, survive. (climate change)
* What is? (AAAS, Huang twins)
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* What is?
 
# Matterenergy, spacetime, universe, particles, elements, forces, laws
 
# Matterenergy, spacetime, universe, particles, elements, forces, laws
 
# Solar system, Sun, Earth, moon, life, biosphere, matter cycles, energy flows
 
# Solar system, Sun, Earth, moon, life, biosphere, matter cycles, energy flows
 
# Humans, mind, society, technology, artifact
 
# Humans, mind, society, technology, artifact
 
* How did it come to be?
 
* How did it come to be?
# Evolution of universe, Earth, life, human life, society, to c. 200,000 years BCE (Harvey)
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# Evolution of universe, Earth, life, human life, society, to c. 200,000 years BCE
# Evolution of global ecosystem for most recent 200,000 years (Harvey)
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# Evolution of global ecosystem for most recent 200,000 years
# Human hunting/gathering, agriculture, urbanization, centralization of power and rise of social “system,” specialization, technological development (Eisler, Mumford, Urban, Heilbroner)
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# Human hunting/gathering, agriculture, urbanization, centralization of power and rise of social “system,” specialization, technological development  
# Energy and other resource depletion, proliferation of hazards, disruption of processes, overshoot, complexity (Catton, Tainter)
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# Energy and other resource depletion, proliferation of hazards, disruption of processes, overshoot, complexity
# Human physical and psychological characteristics (Diamond, Shepard)
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# Human physical and psychological characteristics
* Where are we going? (status and trends of factors in ecological framework)
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* Where are we going?
# Mental and physical health (Shepard; life expectancy at different ages)
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# Mental and physical health
 
# Information
 
# Information
# Accuracy (science; other)
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# Accuracy
# Pertinence (misperceived threat stats)
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# Pertinence
# Signal-to-noise ratio (30% of web traffic is porn)
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# Signal-to-noise ratio
# Nature/human ecology (Club of Rome; IPCC; Sixth Extinction)
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# Nature/human ecology
# Artifact (AI prognosticators, e.g., Urban, Bostrom)
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# Artifact
 
# Society
 
# Society
# Dominator/Partnership (Eisler,Kelly)
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# Dominator/Partnership
# Emergence of “System” and “Megamachine” (Dunn, Mumford)
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# Emergence of “System” and “Megamachine”
 
# 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
# Selfish gene (Dawkins)
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# Selfish gene
# Meme machines (Dennett, Blackmore)
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# Meme machines  
 
# Status in social hierarchy
 
# Status in social hierarchy
 
# Maslow
 
# Maslow
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# Experiential
 
# Experiential
 
# Replace flawed bases for knowing value
 
# Replace flawed bases for knowing value
# Science-based religing (connectedness, ethics)
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# Science-based religing
# Biophysical economics (TruCost; Nordhaus coal)
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# Biophysical economics
# Consequences of debt money (Eisenstadt, Hayek, Fisher)
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# Consequences of debt money
# Seignorage money system (Worgl, Greco)
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# Seignorage money system
# Political and moral philosophy (redefining and repositioning "-isms")
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# Political and moral philosophy
 
# 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?
 
# 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 17:32, 18 January 2017

  • Define consilience and explain how it is possible and why it is necessary
  • How do we know?
  1. Explain why science is a singular basis for consilience
  2. Make case for valuescience
  3. Define value. Show prediction is nexus. Value meaningful only to extent resting on successful prediction.
  4. Predicate behavior upon, and explain it with ideas about value
  5. Map different from territory. Humans numerous and powerful. Errors increasingly costly. Must close gap to thrive, survive. (climate change)
  • What is?
  1. Matterenergy, spacetime, universe, particles, elements, forces, laws
  2. Solar system, Sun, Earth, moon, life, biosphere, matter cycles, energy flows
  3. Humans, mind, society, technology, artifact
  • How did it come to be?
  1. Evolution of universe, Earth, life, human life, society, to c. 200,000 years BCE
  2. Evolution of global ecosystem for most recent 200,000 years
  3. Human hunting/gathering, agriculture, urbanization, centralization of power and rise of social “system,” specialization, technological development
  4. Energy and other resource depletion, proliferation of hazards, disruption of processes, overshoot, complexity
  5. Human physical and psychological characteristics
  • Where are we going?
  1. Mental and physical health
  2. Information
  3. Accuracy
  4. Pertinence
  5. Signal-to-noise ratio
  6. Nature/human ecology
  7. Artifact
  8. Society
  9. Dominator/Partnership
  10. Emergence of “System” and “Megamachine”
  11. Technocornucopian/Transitional & Multinational corporate/Local, personal
  • What do we want?
  1. Describe vision for self, society, Earth
  2. Selfish gene
  3. Meme machines
  4. Status in social hierarchy
  5. Maslow
  • How can we get it?
  1. accommodation/manipulation
  2. consciousness/technology
  3. What ask/offer?
  4. Portfolio of selves akin to investment portfolio
  5. trade-offs among satisfactions of different levels of Maslow's Hierarchy
  6. How become better able to realize vision through conscious evolution of self?
  7. Genetic
  8. Epigenetic
  9. Experiential
  10. Replace flawed bases for knowing value
  11. Science-based religing
  12. Biophysical economics
  13. Consequences of debt money
  14. Seignorage money system
  15. Political and moral philosophy
  16. Literal, integrated capitalism/incomism
  17. Literal, integrated communism/individualism
  18. 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?
  19. How evolve visions