PATTERNS OF IMPORT by Bill Joslin. Like epistemology and ethics, graceful failur

PATTERNS OF IMPORT

by Bill Joslin.

Like epistemology and ethics, graceful failure applies here.

Epistemology

1. With perfect (adequate) information – science, empiricism

2. With partial information we fall back on heuristics (rules of thumb) – coherence and internal consistency

3. Without adequate information we fall back on faith, intuition

Ethics:

1. With adequate information – consequentialism

2. with partial information – virtue ethics

3. without adequate information – deontic ethics (duty to rules)

Identity

1. With high-trust commons (accumulated social capital) – Civ nat (demonstrated shared values)

2. with partial trust – ethnicity (shared traditions and culture)

3. in absence of trust – biology (race gender etc)

These are matters of proximity as well:

1. In close knit isolated communities – if approached by a stranger

2. far distance – race (low resolution friend foe detection)

3. mid distance – clothing cultural clues (mid resolution)

4. close distance – behavior (high resolution)