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

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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 Basis for successful prediction Discerned by practicing science

Science Method for learning Body of information learned

Scientific Method Questioning Observing Reasoning Imagining Testing Communicating

Ecology Scientific study of interactions between life and environment.

Human Ecology People Numbers Information Environment Resources Hazards

Evolving Information Hazards Numbers Information Resources

Information Genes Experience

Culture Information transmitted behaviorally among individuals of the same species

Value Property of material universe Discerned, not decided

VALUE value

REALITY reality

REALITY reality REALITY reality

VALUE value VALUE value

Ecological Approach to Value Democratic Universal Adaptive

Ecology as Meta-Value Means to discern and realize value

Living well Dying well

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

Thank You!

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