This-essay is a8312022.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
==========================================================
%SELF-REFERENTIAL BELIEF SYSTEMS SCIENCE 831202
The belief systems in which groups of people trust
are self-referential. If a belief system includes the
belief that the system itself has negative value, people
cannot reasonably believe in it. If the belief system
includes no belief about the value of the system, it will
not compete effectively against belief systems whose
believers believe that their systems have positive value.
Thus the belief systems in which groups of people trust
are self-referential with positive self references.
To avoid unchecked self-referential bias a belief
system must in some basic way refer it's followers to
criteria for validation which transcend the nature of and
the content of the system. The system must guide it's
followers to regularly check it's value within their
competitive environment, to see if the community of
believers can with integrity continue to affirm the value
of the system. The system must point outside of itself to
an unbiased ground for continuing validation and detection
of errors. That to which reference is made loses it's
value as a validator and error checker if it is
incorporated into the belief system or if it incorporates
the belief system into itself. Each must remain not-
controlled by the other, essentially independent.
The value of scientists' belief system cannot be
confirmed by scientific methods. There are no scientific
experiments which prove that scientists' ways of doing
things are better than the ways of non-scientists. The
process of validation of scientists' methods must be
essentially a non-scientific process, if the process is to
have any unbiased value. It is logically absurd to claim
that the validation process must be carried out in a
scientific way.
This leaves open the question of just how the
scientific enterprise is to be validated. Under what
circumstances is it wise to behave as scientists do? Under
what circumstances is it unwise to behave as scientists
do? What kinds of people can give wise advice on such a
fundamental question?
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty
(On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)
==========================================================
Lines beginning with a percent sign are KEYWORDS for use
in ESSAY-System Searches. Their terminal digits are dates
of writing in the format @yymmdd#, where @ = a means 99,
@ = b means 20, and # = is a within-date essay-count.
Links to date-adjacent essays are near page top & bottom.
Find the following links by clicking on CENTER when CENTER
near the top or bottom of a web page of essayz.com
1. Go to HOME PAGE of essayz.com
2. Find brief-essays via keywords
3. Find brief-essay about ADDICTION
4. Search-Helps related to ABOVE-LINK
5. GoTo Action & Information Center
6. Find Regular-Essays via Year/Month
7. Find Regular-Essays via Word-Starts
8. Find Regular-Essay about LOVE
This-essay is a8312022.htm which is available at the
web-site www.essayz.com. These 5 lines echo top lines.
Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay
By-Months By-Years By-Words
Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One