Worldview

• 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 (culture cleaner)
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.

• What is? (AAAS, Huang twins)

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 (Harvey)
2. Evolution of global ecosystem for most recent 200,000 years (Harvey)
3. Human hunting/gathering, agriculture, urbanization, centralization of power and rise of social “system,” specialization, technological development (Eisler, Mumford, Urban, Heilbroner)
4. Energy and other resource depletion, proliferation of hazards, disruption of processes, overshoot, complexity (Catton, Tainter)
5. Human physical and psychological characteristics (Diamond, Shepard)

• Where are we going? (status and trends of factors in ecological framework)

1. Mental and physical health (Shepard; life expectancy at different ages)
2. Information
3. Accuracy (science; other)
4. Pertinence (misperceived threat stats)
5. Signal-to-noise ratio (30% porn)
6. Nature/human ecology (Club of Rome; IPCC; biodiversity)
7. Artifact (AI prognosticators e.g., Urban)
8. Society
9. Dominator/Partnership (Kelly)
10. Emergence of “System” and “Megamachine”
11. Technocornucopian/Transitional & Multinational corporate/Local personal
12. What do we want?
13. Describe vision for self, society, Earth
14. Selfish gene (Dawkins)
15. Meme machines (Dennett, Blackmore)
16. Status in social hierarchy
17. Maslow

• How can we get it?

1. accommodation/manipulation
2. consciousness/technology
3. What ask/offer?
4. Portfolio of selves
5. trade-offs
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 religion (connectedness, ethics)
12. Biophysical economics (TruCost; Nordhaus coal)
13. Seignorage money system
14. Political and moral philosophy
15. Literal, integrated capitalism/incomism
16. Literal, integrated communism/individualism
17. How evolve visions