From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 10:52:16 MST
> Maybe we have to start investing in community capacity for good
> decision-making? - starting early so the capacity is more in evidence
> by the time we really need it.
Well, one way of addressing this is via the Global Brain Mindplex idea.. but
there are of course also less gee-whizzy, lower-tech approaches to the same
thing
More concrete suggestions would be appreciated!
> Maybe we can find the few oases where communities are appracntly
> more capable of thoughtful/ participatory decision-making and we could
> trial discussions on transcension etc. in these contexts. this will seed
> some inform,ed ideas in the community and it will give us some
> experience in working democratically. And the feed-back we'd get
> would be good for us. We will get a much better idea of what people's
> concerns and hopes are and we get a mirror on our own ideas/
> rationality.
Sounds like an excellent idea.... I assume you're volunteering to initiate
this effort ;-))
Having a broad diversity of perspectives represented would be a really
interesting thing
I'm reminded of an interesting book I read recently, describing dialogues
between the Dalai Lama and several well-known scientists including Francisco
Varela ...
ben g
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jul 17 2013 - 04:00:45 MDT