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Beyond Illusion: Ecology & Value

Beyond Illusion: Ecology & Value. by David Schrom Senior Resident Fellow, Magic. Value. What we want Ends and means. Questions of Value. What do I want? How can I get it? How do I know?. Prediction. Implicit in values Adequate basis?. Illusion. Misperception Suffering. Pattern.

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Beyond Illusion: Ecology & Value

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  1. Beyond Illusion: Ecology & Value by David Schrom Senior Resident Fellow, Magic

  2. Value • What we want • Ends and means

  3. Questions of Value • What do I want? • How can I get it? • How do I know?

  4. Prediction • Implicit in values • Adequate basis?

  5. Illusion • Misperception • Suffering

  6. Pattern • Basis for successful prediction • Discerned by practicing science

  7. Science • Method for learning • Body of information learned

  8. Scientific Method • Questioning • Observing • Reasoning • Imagining • Testing • Communicating

  9. Ecology • Scientific study of interactions between life and environment.

  10. Human Ecology People • Numbers • Information Environment • Resources • Hazards

  11. Evolving Information Hazards Numbers Information Resources

  12. Information • Genes • Experience

  13. Culture Information transmitted behaviorally among individuals of the same species

  14. Value • Property of material universe • Discerned, not decided

  15. value VALUE

  16. reality REALITY

  17. REALITY reality reality REALITY

  18. VALUE value value VALUE

  19. Ecological Approach to Value • Democratic • Universal • Adaptive

  20. Ecology as Meta-Value • Means to discern and realize value

  21. Living well Dying well

  22. Beyond Illusion: Ecology & Value • Using ecology to see ourselves and the world more accurately, so that we may live and die well.

  23. Thank You!

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