Merle, I'm the developer of www.WorldHappinessMeter.com (WHM). How can I be involved in the Happiness Santa Fe launch on Saturday? I notice from your site that an in-depth survey is part of the festivities. One planned addition to WHM is a survey in order to gather data worldwide to save the need for boots on the ground.
Ron -- Ron Newman, Founder MyIdeatree.com <http://www.ideatree.us/> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com/> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Merle Lefkoff <[email protected]>wrote: > Roger, > > Righto! We launch "Happiness Santa Fe" on Saturday ( go to our website, > the Center for Emergent Diplomacy, or just go to Happiness Santa Fe for a > calendar of events). We've had many recent conversations about how to > encourage conditions for a shift in our mental models from consumerism and > inequality toward compassion and generosity. > > When I teach Complexity at Upaya in the Buddhist chaplaincy program I > usually suggest that compassion is an emergent property of the biggest > system of all--our brains. So I say, hey guys, just meditate more! We > have hard neuroscience on how that works. But how do we change the initial > conditions for a collective response? Perhaps one way is to measure human > happiness and well-being differently by expanding GDP to include ecological > and social indicators as the Bhutanese have been trying to do for decades. > We tend to value what we measure. > > You know, dear Roger, that I follow the research carefully. Thanks for > this link. You guys study--we act and put it on the ground!! > > Merle > > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's an intriguing book review in Science this week: >> >> *Studying Human Behavior* How Scientists Investigate Aggression and >> Sexuality *by Helen E. Longino* University of Chicago Press, Chicago, >> 2013. 261 pp. S75. ISBN 9780226492872. Paper, $25, £16. ISBN 9780226492889. >> >> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/146.1.full?rss=1 >> >> The claim is that there is not and will not be a dominant paradigm for >> researching human behavior, there are multiple ways of establishing causes >> for behavior and that's just the way it is. >> >> So not only do phenomena worth studying emerge at different levels of >> organization, but the emerging phenomena at a level of organization are >> amenable to different disciplines of study which may all be judged >> "scientific" by a philosopher of science. >> >> So, what's scientific evidence now? >> >> -- rec -- >> >> ============================================================ >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. > President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy > Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA > [email protected] > mobile: (303) 859-5609 > skype: merlelefkoff > > ============================================================ > 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 >
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