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  • 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.
  • 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