| “The moral imperative” or “The social contract” Is:
“Each shall do the best to maximize his/her and everybody’s Sapience”. That: Only the maximization of Sapience can give us the best chance to continue evolving for ever. That: Maximizing Sapience would give us the means to approximate maximally an ever higher state of happiness and sustain it, by giving us each time more real control of our lives and also by showing us where and when we are going wrong about happiness. That: Humanity it is a creative species. Humanity in an ever rising curve creates itself. To optimize that, we have morality. That: Increasing other person's sapience increases our own. Definitions: Wisdom: Knowledge of management of knowledge (this latter: true information, information that can be used to predict and direct any aspect of reality). Morality: Optimal behavior. Love: Feeling of identification and good will towards, self, others, humanity and the whole of creation. Creativity: The re-arrangement of patterns into new patterns that enables to predict and manage more and more aspects of the total environment: physical, biological, psycho-social.( Including ourselves--including the aspect of our happiness). Creativity is taken as any activity that capacitates more and more to a life of growth. for the individual, for others, and the species as a whole.(educational activities, fitness activities, explorations, inventions, arts, the creation and participation in forums like this one, are all taken to be creative.) Creativity is the most amenable of the elements above, to the application of the scientific method in its evaluation, or at least, to verification by experience. Principally when it appears in the form of objective creativity. |