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SUBJECTS
Colloquium Unfinished Revolution,
Objectives, Collective IQ
Competition, Cooperation, Innate Conflict to Integrated Tools
Global Problems Too Vast Lack Focus
Morality, Religion
Binary Forces of Nature

1608 -    ..
1609 - Summary/Objective
1610 -
161001 - Follow up ref SDS 48 0000, ref SDS 47 0000.
161002 -
161003 - Clark Qyinn supports Paul Fernhout's call for charity, and argues for
161004 - morality.  He says an OHS/DKR should support education in developing
161005 - values, and support "legitimate participation."  Clark asks whether
161006 - such support should be explicit or implicit.  Analysis suggests an
161007 - OHS/DKR is a technical capability, like the alphabet, which can help
161008 - people form beliefs, support education and manifest their objectives.
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1613 - Progress
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161402 - Decline of Religion Causes Moral Compass to Drift Off Course
161403 -
161404 - Follow up ref SDS 48 4028, ref SDS 44 4028.
161405 -
161406 - Clark Quinn submits ref DRT 1 0001 citing generally letters from Eric
161407 - Armstrong, and commenting on a letter from Paul Fernhout received
161408 - 000127, ref SDS 48 4636, that addresses the need to balance market
161409 - forces with values of humanity, global resource depletion that impact
161410 - the strength of community. ref DRP 8 0868
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161412 -     [On 001219 Paul Fernhout submits strong letter in support of using
161413 -     DKR for important values. ref SDS 51 0208
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161415 - Clark argues "we" have lost a moral compass because the influence of
161416 - religion has declined, as communities grow, become heterogeneous,
161417 - mobile and connected, which impact shared values. ref DRT 1 3212
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161419 -     Just to be analytical, who is the "we"?
161420 -
161421 -        Clark and his family?
161422 -        Clark and friends?
161423 -        Just friends?
161424 -        His group at work (e.g., department, division, company)?
161425 -        His children's class at school (the entire school, a team at
161426 -        school, the district, the state school system)
161427 -        His professional, fraternal organization?
161428 -        The city, county, state, nation, culture, civilization?
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161430 -     Thus, it seems that values and community are organic, existing in
161431 -     different forms and levels.  A globally connected community may
161432 -     lead over time to a situation of agreeing only on the lowest
161433 -     common values, e.g., food, safety, etc.  Clark may be noting that
161434 -     this design, reduces the character of life for cultural segments
161435 -     who have hit upon a set of narrower values, e.g., the work ethic,
161436 -     charity, which do not bring immediate rewards, and so are not
161437 -     universally shared.  How can a globally connected community permit
161438 -     a diversity of sub-communities to pursue conflicting values?
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161443 - Morality Requires Vigilence to Align Conduct with Standards
161444 - Communication Predicate to Action, Required Leadership Broader Vision
161445 - Charity Should be Core Value Shared by All; Action Should Match Words
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161447 - Clark advocates that core values to help the less fortunate should be
161448 - shared by everyone in the community.  He supports coherency between
161449 - values professed and the actions of the community, and explicit
161450 - education and feedback on actions, for that value system to be
161451 - persistent. (I believe that myth and ritual play a part, and am
161452 - interested in how that happens.), ref DRT 1 3021
161453 -
161454 -     [On 001219 Paul Fernhout submits strong letter in support of using
161455 -     DKR for important values. ref SDS 51 01YQ
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161457 - Andy Grove, CEO at Intel and Time Man of the Year in 1997, calls the
161458 - difference between executives calling for change and improvement, but
161459 - failing to take affirmative action...
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161461 -
161462 -                       strategic dissonnance
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161464 -
161465 - ...from review of Grove's book on 980307. ref SDS 19 5517  Overcoming
161466 - the ignorance, fear and denial to turn words into action requires
161467 - leadershp with a broader vision, ibid. ref SDS 20 4485
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161470 -     What sets the moral compass and "shared values"?
161471 -
161472 -        People share values for food, water and sex fairly uniformly.
161473 -        People value sunsets, freedom, charity... at varying levels
161474 -        over time.
161475 -        ..
161476 -        Charity is explained in anthropology as a process of
161477 -        storing up favors for recriprocal treatment under different
161478 -        circumstances, i.e., it is an investment, per analysis on
161479 -        000127. ref SDS 48 6888
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161481 -        Deferred rewards that require investment or forebearance of
161482 -        immediate gratification, are harder to share at a constant
161483 -        level by everyone.  "Coherency" advocated by Clark is at war
161484 -        with diversity, in that people's feelings necessarily vary over
161485 -        time and circumstance.
161486 -
161487 -        God jotted down guidelines for Moses to help maintain coherency
161488 -        in aligning conduct with a "moral" direction that increases the
161489 -        chances of sustaining a viable community.
161490 -
161491 -        Jesus later supplemented the guidelines.
161492 -
161493 -        England added the Magna Carta to re-focus on guidelines.
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161495 -        America added a Declaration of Independence and Constitution to
161496 -        secure the blessings of freedom, and arranged to place the
161497 -        forces of hegemony in eternal competition, so that no single
161498 -        force would have a good chance of dominating.
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161500 -     This record suggests we never entirely lose the moral compass, and
161501 -     we never attain morality, but rather are on an eternal journey
161502 -     from life to death, struggling through vigiligence to be "good" or
161503 -     like "god," in the face of bilogical drives to compete for limited
161504 -     resources, or invest and cooperate to synergize capabilities in
161505 -     expanding resources for a better future.  Farming is the prototype
161506 -     of investment, reviewed on 950426. ref SDS 5 4404  Business
161507 -     meetings are the prototype of impulsive foraging for immediate
161508 -     gratification.
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161510 -     What pressures suppress awareness of the moral compass?
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161512 -        Technology provides mobility that makes it easy to avoid
161513 -        accountability by pulling up stakes and starting over, rather
161514 -        than suffer consequences from failure to maintain alignment
161515 -        with standards.  Fear of accountability was reviewed on 980405.
161516 -        ref SDS 21 5065
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161518 -        Information overload from a busy life crowds out from span of
161519 -        attention awareness of conduct that is not aligned with
161520 -        standards, reviewed on 970829. ref SDS 16 2878
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161522 -        Diversity in the culture has many advantages, but, also, blurs
161523 -        the focus on narrow issues of conduct by exposing a wide range
161524 -        of alternative conduct, which requires experimentation to
161525 -        discover conflicts with core values.
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161528 -     How does religion help?
161529 -
161530 -        Religion offers a process of alignment that avoids drifting off
161531 -        course, by maintaining alignment with objectives; and, it thus
161532 -        was the first management science, as set out in the New World
161533 -        Order... paper.
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161535 -        Religion offers a common set of stories that focus on benefits
161536 -        of being good, and disadvantages of being bad, with the aim of
161537 -        maximizing deferred rewards.  These stories are related once a
161538 -        week, to bring back within span of attention awareness of
161539 -        standards that help people align their conduct with these
161540 -        forces in their lives and communities.
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161542 -        Religion does not have to teach it is a bad idea to place our
161543 -        hand in the fire, because the time period for learning that
161544 -        lesson is very short.  It teaches instead not steal because
161545 -        that lesson takes longer to discover downside impacts, as set
161546 -        out in the record on 921205 explaining faith. ref SDS 3 8493
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161548 -        Catholic religion offers a "metric" system called "confession"
161549 -        that provides time to reflect on alignment of personal conduct
161550 -        with standards.
161551 -
161552 -     What forces support religion's role of maintaining focus on good?
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161554 -        Technology provides...
161555 -
161556 -        •  Soap operas
161557 -        •  Television situation comedies
161558 -        •  Nightly news and radio talk shows
161559 -        •  Books, magazines, newspapers
161560 -        •  Elections, candidates presenting their arguments for votes.
161561 -        •  Strong economy
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161563 -        These forces tell modern stories that reinforce standards of
161564 -        good conduct, ranging from manners to humanity.
161565 -
161566 -        A strong economy helps people buy homes with lawns, and buy
161567 -        lawn mowers and other instruments that enable people to
161568 -        experience the benefits of a well ordered enviroment that is
161569 -        conducive to a constructive role in community life.  This
161570 -        experience is the strongest glue that binds people into a
161571 -        community of shared values.  Even though is often a felt
161572 -        experience due to information overload and less attendance at
161573 -        church, it is immediately recognized when threatened or
161574 -        withheld.
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SUBJECTS
DKR Purpose
DKR Needs Architecture, 000426, Jack Park
OHS DKR Integrate
OHS Open Hyperdocument System
Education On-demand Teaching Tool
Technology Template Project Defines OHS, DKR, Doug Engelbart 980128
Technology Template Project Defines OHS, DKR, Doug Engelbart, 980128

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231002 - Technology Template Project Defines OHS and DKR
231003 - Cognitive Technologies Enhance Education and Collaboration
231004 -
231005 - Clark suggests an OHS/DKR can support education and collaboration. He
231006 - cites the Technology Template Project /OHS Framework shows addresses
231007 - and links are readable and interpretable, and recommends making the
231008 - conceptual model clear as well. ref DRT 1 1107
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231010 -       [On 000614 Eric Armstrong cites Technology Template Project for
231011 -       support of v0.9 for OHS requirements. ref SDS 49 4710
231012 -
231013 -       [On 001115 Eric reported he had not seen documents that explain
231014 -       OHS and DKR scope. ref SDS 50 895L
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231016 -     On 951012 reviewed enhancing education using SDS technology to
231017 -     lift the capacity to think, remember and communicate. ref SDS 10
231018 -     1940
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231020 -     This reflects the fungible nature of information and knowledge,
231021 -     and technologies that support these cognitive constructs, for
231022 -     example the alphabet.  The alphabet supports education by enabling
231023 -     people to give external form to internal thoughts, which affords
231024 -     the opportunity to expand knowledge, and improve the quality of
231025 -     what is already known. Work product can be shared with others
231026 -     for education and collaboration.
231027 -
231028 -     The Internet supports the World Wide Web which provides an open
231029 -     system of hyperdocuments, and a dynamic repository of knowledge.
231030 -     These capabilities support education and collaboration.
231031 -
231032 -     Doug's objective is to enhance these capabilities, which seems
231033 -     likely to enhance education called out by Clark.
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231037 - Technology Capability Facilitates Advocacy
231038 -
231039 - Clark says an OHS/DKR may need to support developing beliefs and
231040 - values, as well as ideas, to support legitimate participation.  What
231041 - this may mean, concretely, is linking arguments and assumptions to an
231042 - underlying belief structure.  The question is, is this explicit to the
231043 - system, or merely a use of the system to document another facet.
231044 -
231045 -        [On 001219 Paul Fernhout submits strong letter in support of
231046 -        using DKR for important values. ref SDS 51 0208
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231048 -     OHS/DKR is a capability, like the alphabet, backhoes, automobiles
231049 -     and hyperdermic needles.  Each can be used for good or ill in the
231050 -     same way that the human mind is constantly balancing binary forces
231051 -     of nature, discussed on 000125, ref SDS 46 3089, and again
231052 -     yesterday. ref SDS 48 3089
231053 -
231054 -     What is "ligitimate participation"?
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231056 -     Linking to a belief structure is always both explicit and
231057 -     implicit, in that beliefs and values are organic, existing in a
231058 -     hierarchy discussed above. ref SDS 0 3843  The notion of a single
231059 -     belief system may work for basic values like life, liberty and the
231060 -     pursuit of happiness.  Seeking agreement on a wider agenda becomes
231061 -     exponentially problematic, as discussed on 000125 reviewing a
231062 -     concept of "Oneness." ref SDS 46 3089  Forcing people to link
231063 -     everything to core values takes time.  Monks and similar
231064 -     professionals invest all their time in this activity, so that
231065 -     others are freed to address higher level issues that sustain such
231066 -     practice.
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