On 10/28/2015 12:05 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Now, how similar is your behavior in regard to climate change to the decision-making patterns you describe here.
I don't understand the question. How similar is my behavior is to my decision-making? That's so over-loaded with implications I can't think straight. 8^) First, what I tried to describe was my behavior, not my decision-making. Your question not only implies that I failed in that, but that there's a difference between decision-making and behavior. Decision-making and behavior are the same thing. Second, it's not clear that anything I do can affect climate change at all. Or, let me put it another way. There are things I can control (like voting, calling a representative, arguing in bars, drinking out of reusable containers, etc.). But the connection of any of those things with climate change is tenuous. So, when making my decisions (i.e. behaving) I rely on _lots_ of broad spectrum inputs, parallax, not merely climate change ... not a single input. My decisions (voting, getting to-go beer in a growler, etc) are all multiply and heterogeneously justified. Hence it's misleading to impute a single cause for any given behavior/decision.
Also: turn your analytic skills on what you are doing here. Is it REASONABLE. Is it REASONING. Is it EVER reasonable to change your individual behavior on the basis of a population average?
Well, like a broken record, there is no "reason" independent of my biological milieu. I think that implies the answer to your question is "of course". If my biology is driven by, say, the trace minerals in my tap water, and most people in my city drink the same tap water, then of course, it's reasonable to assume we'll change our behavior _toward_ a population average ... probably the same reason we all react to "house music" or fruit. You may _say_ you don't like fructose ... but that highlights the ambiguity in "like", not the biology that processs it. But if your question is intended to invoke the deus ex machina, where _thought_ (esp. a single thought) is the causa prima for action, then absolutely NO. That never happens in me and I deny that it happens in you or anyone else. -- glen ep ropella -- 971-255-2847 ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
