(2011-08-08) Schroeder Rewilding Etiquette

Karl Schroeder suggests: What would a correct theory of human nature look like, combined with the principles of Self Organization and Collective Intelligence that are emerging right now? What would a Cog Sci (NeuroScience) singularity look like? I think it would look like GoodManners. (LeeWay) (see Unifying Culture/Cultural Pluralism at New Look At Schools) What if, instead, we started a new movement in manners, one directed at conflict resolution, collective problem solving, and the cohabitation of diverse kinds of people? And simply presented it as a Movement, like open source software, not run by a social engineering elite but by anybody who's willing to use the publically available code: i.e., the peer-reviewed, experimentally verified, incomplete but emerging cognitive sciences?... Rewilded manners are manners that have had localization, historical accident, and obsolete folk theories removed; washing hands is rewilded manners. Eating pork is no longer bad manners (unless you eat it around people for whom it still is). Rewilded manners is saying, "I'm sorry, could you repeat that?" instead of demanding that the person you're talking to speak proper English... Imagine the rewilded manners of a near-future Earth, where overlapping etiquette movements combine and compete the way that Gnome and KDE do within the broader Linux community, each seeking a style proper to its vision of human culture, but each adhering to deeper common principles that are derived from a rigorous study of how people actually behave, and what helps them get along, when they do get along. (Re-Wilding) (Minimal Compact)