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   %REFLEXIVE REALITY PROBLEM DILEMMA COPE SOLUTION 890124

     Reflexive  realities reflect back upon themselves  or
make reference to the reality of such reflection.

     In  grammar  reflexive verbs refer to words  used  to
indicate  action in which the actor's action reflects back
upon the actor.

     In  reflection  a  person  reflects  upon  their  own
situation,   problem,   predicament,  opportunity,   life,
reflections,   etc.   In prayer and  meditation  a  person
engages in reflexive behavior which is not objective.   In
objective  behavior  a  person  attempts  to  avoid  being
reflexive;   and  attempts  to  be unaware  of  their  own
reflexive behaviors and realities even when they do exist.

     Some  problems  which  appear  to  be  no  more  than
technical problems, in reality contain reflexive elements.

     The  highway  which  is overcrowded  seems  to  be  a
technical problem for which a solution is building a wider
highway.   Building  a wider highway  attracts  additional
human   activities  which  recognized  the   highway   and
perpetuates what appears to be just a technical problem.

     Many  human  diseases  seem to  present  people  with
technical  problems:   how to cure the diseases and  avoid
their  debilitating  effects.  Medical cures for all  such
diseases present people with the problems of dealing  with
other diseases which rarely before presented themselves as
problematic.    Such   cures  also  present  problems   of
increasing  costs of medical care.  Successful cures  also
present the human community with the predicaments of over-
population.

     Scientific  research  as  the  means  for  overcoming
ignorance  presents the reflexive problem of dealing  with
the  exponential  growth of and management of  information
and  the challenge of dealing with informational  garbage.
Computer  information  management systems  facilitate  the
management  of  information,   but do not provide  a  non-
reflexive   solution  to  the  problem  of  making   value
judgments and dealing with informational garbage.

     Moral,   ethical  and  legal codes  as  solutions  to
questions of human propriety present the reflexive dilemma
of how to deal with people who fail to conform to what the
codes call for as regards human decisions and actions. How
are  such  codes  to  deal with the questions  of  how  to
respond  to the situations created by the creation of  the
codes,    and  the  failures  of  humans  to  fulfill  the
expectations  generated by the refinements of  the  codes?
What  code is to specify how to deal with the failures  of
codes to solve the "problem"?

     Technology   deals   with   non-reflexive   problems.
Technology  provides  solutions  to questions  of  how  to
achieve  certain  goals without concern for  the  problems
generated  by the achievement of or failure  to  perfectly
achieve those goals.  Technology does not provide guidance
that clearly tells what should be done in response to  the
new  situations  created  by the generation  of  technical
solutions  to technical problems,  and failures to fulfill
the possibilities of those solutions.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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