Constructivism describes how
all valid societies (ours is not a valid one) build knowledge into sort
of a cloud (to borrow from network technology) that hovers above the
society called the "community of knowledge." It includes all
information, private and shared, and extends into the surrounding
environment; so it includes the knowledge of the animals--where the nuts
are, for instance--and also the vast information base of life that is
DNA--when the nuts will arrive.
Valid scientific knowledge is a
part of that cloud, and futher extends the construction aspect by
requiring that all the pieces support each other, so that we know that
we have the correct picture.
Links:
Spiritual Darwinism: Natural and Native Empathy
My degree capstone paper which develops the idea that Darwin's natural
affection is the basis of morality, and is definately natural!
An extension in Wiki format to strengthen the science
of Empathy, as opposed to "cold" or unfeeling science. Anti-emapthy is
described successfully as "emotional communication disorder." In other
words, the anti-empathic cannot help themselves -- but they still have
to be stopped.
Capital Structure Cheat
Sheet
An attempt to comprehensively, yet succinctly, describe the economic and political structure we live in in historical and observational contexts. It focuses on Capital's roots in family capital, showing that the continual refinement of exploitation by a structural elite directly opposes the natural goals of evolution, which are always empathic.
An attempt to comprehensively, yet succinctly, describe the economic and political structure we live in in historical and observational contexts. It focuses on Capital's roots in family capital, showing that the continual refinement of exploitation by a structural elite directly opposes the natural goals of evolution, which are always empathic.
Americans
kill, so what is the kindest way to kill?
The death penalty is with us to stay, so why not use beneficially by reversing it: repressing repression
The death penalty is with us to stay, so why not use beneficially by reversing it: repressing repression
I am constructivist