1. Beyond Illusion: Ecology & Value by David Schrom Senior Resident Fellow, Magic

2. Value What we want Ends and means

3. Questions of Value What do I want? How can I get it? How do I know?

4. Prediction Implicit in values Adequate basis?

5. Illusion Misperception Suffering

6. Pattern Basis for successful prediction Discerned by practicing science

7. Science Method for learning Body of information learned

8. Scientific Method Questioning Observing Reasoning Imagining Testing Communicating

9. Ecology Scientific study of interactions between life and environment.

10. Human Ecology People Numbers Information Environment Resources Hazards

11. Evolving Information Hazards Numbers Information Resources

12. Information Genes Experience

13. Culture Information transmitted behaviorally among individuals of the same species

14. Value Property of material universe Discerned, not decided

15. VALUE value

16. REALITY reality

17. REALITY reality REALITY reality

18. VALUE value VALUE value

19. Ecological Approach to Value Democratic Universal Adaptive

20. Ecology as Meta-Value Means to discern and realize value

21. Living well Dying well

22. Beyond Illusion: Ecology & Value Using ecology to see ourselves and the world more accurately, so that we may live and die well.

23. Thank You!