This-essay is a8012231.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %SCIENTIFIC GOAL ORIENTED BEHAVIOR 801223 Scientists and engineers concern themselves with techniques for achieving previously chosen goals. They presume that it is appropriate to organize living around goal oriented behavior, and that if there are any questions the questions pertain to the selection of desirable goals---not to whether life should be organized around goal oriented behavior. All behavior is perceived as goal oriented behavior, because no other kind of behavior is conceivable. Within such a perceptual framework even the most intimate personal relationships are seen as goal oriented behavior, perhaps even as games in the sense of formal game theory. Of course the evidence can be manipulated to fit into such a perceptual framework---provided some careful selection of evidence is permitted. Of course, not all evidence is of equal value, so there must be some basis for selection and interpretation. The assumption that all behavior is goal oriented can successfully by used as the basis for selection and interpretation. Once the assumption has been made that all behavior is goal oriented, it is important to be concerned with the means to achieving goals. There are some goals for which there are inadequate means, and so they do not seem as desirable as other goals for which means are at hand. Thus the selection of goals may become dominated by the availability of means to achieve the goals. Human behavior then becomes dominated by the availability of resources and technology to accomplish selected goals. The course of the development of technology is strongly influenced by the discoveries of modern scientists. Which technology becomes possible depends upon which scientific discoveries are made, and in what order. The discoveries which are made depend as much upon the whims of scientists' interests---as it does upon human needs. Thus a goal oriented society may become dominated indirectly by the whims of pure scientists who choose lines of research that make possible new technologies--- which in turn make available the means to achieve new goals which become attractive just because they are achievable. Is goal oriented behavior the only way to approach living? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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