Beyond Illusion: Ecology & Value by David Schrom Senior Resident Fellow, Magic.
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Transcript of Beyond Illusion: Ecology & Value by David Schrom Senior Resident Fellow, Magic.
Beyond Illusion: Ecology & ValueBeyond Illusion: Ecology & Value
by David Schrom
Senior Resident Fellow, Magic
ValueValue
What we want Ends and means
Questions of ValueQuestions of Value
What do I want?How can I get it?How do I know?
PredictionPrediction
Implicit in valuesAdequate basis?
IllusionIllusion
Misperception Suffering
PatternPatternBasis for successful predictionDiscerned by practicing science
ScienceScience
Method for learningBody of information
learned
Scientific MethodScientific Method
QuestioningObservingReasoningImaginingTestingCommunicating
EcologyEcology
Scientific study of interactions between life and environment.
Human EcologyHuman Ecology
People
NumbersInformation
Environment
Resources Hazards
Evolving InformationEvolving Information
Hazards Numbers
Information
Resources
InformationInformation
GenesExperience
CultureCulture
Information transmitted behaviorally among individuals of the same species
ValueValue
Property of material universeDiscerned, not decided
VALUE
value
REALITY
reality
REALITY reality
REALITYreality
VALUE value
VALUEvalue
Ecological Approach to ValueEcological Approach to Value
DemocraticUniversalAdaptive
Ecology as Meta-ValueEcology as Meta-Value
Means to discern and realize value
Living well Living well
Dying well Dying well
Beyond Illusion: Ecology & ValueBeyond Illusion: Ecology & Value
Using ecology to see ourselves and the world more accurately, so that we may live and die well.
Thank You!Thank You!