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 %GOAL EMOTION AFFECT EXPERIENCE TRANSCEND BIAS WAY 930116

     The  engineering/scientific  PARADIGM  is  one  which
looks  upon parts of reality as usable entities which  are
to be modified, crafted, shaped, transformed and otherwise
used  to  construct the fulfillment of a  vision,   dream,
blue-print,   or other form of specification of  some  end
product. Some person is in charge of the management of the
pieces. The machine with levers, wheels, gears, rods, push
buttons,    and  their  like  is  the  prototype  of   the
engineering/scientific accomplishment.

     The    engineering/scientific    PARADIGM   may    be
transferred over into personal and social realities; as in
"social engineering",   "business  management", "political
advertising",   "product selling",  etc.  Those people who
live  with the  engineering/scientific  PARADIGM  in their
hearts and blood see other people, personal relationships,
and communities as parts,  pieces, raw materials which are
available  for management in a construction process.   The
primary  questions  are:  what should be constructed,   by
whom,  under whose control,  to whose advantage,  in  what
way,   using  what  materials,  where,  when,   etc?   The
alienative costs  of  transferring  the engineering and/or
scientific  paradigm into the realm of human relationships
are not perceived, considered, or viewed are relevant.

     It is futile  to  try  to  use the engineering and/or
scientific  paradigm   as  the   basis  for assessing  the
cost/benefit ratio  of  transferring the scientific and/or
engineering   paradigm   into  the   realm   of   personal
relationships;   for the assessment is thereby bound to be
biased.   Honest technology assessment must transcend  the
paradigm  of  technocrats.   "Objectivity-in-assessing-the
alienative-costs-of-the-transfer"  is an oxymoronic verbal
construction.  To assess the costs of the transfer we must
transcend the scientific and/or engineering paradigm. Such
transcendence  is  not  the  specialty of  scientists  and
engineers. They have not be trained in transcendence. They
should not be consulted as experts to be  respected  above
all  other  people  in  regards  to transcending their own
paradigm.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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