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!