Re: WWW-SuperBrain and religion and values

Martin L.W. Hall (martin@NETCOM.COM)
Tue, 31 Jan 1995 11:24:10 -0700

At 1:19 AM 1/25/95, Bruce Buchanan wrote:
>spira@chaussegros.architecture.mcgill.ca (Daniel Spira) writes (inter alia):
>
>I would question (see more below) if anybody can rationally design values
>in advance for any kind of societal supersystem. I think that the
>existential realities are too complex for abstract thought alone, and that
>a cybernetic guidance system that is also in touch e.g. with environmental
>and human emotional realities is vital. And of course the processes are
>already under way.

Social values are derived by those in the social system (Rokeach, et al).
You can suggest values that people should adhere to in the system but it
may or may not take (for example, corporate values or mission statements).

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