[extropy-chat] Extropic Commandments

[Damien Broderick]

At 07:22 PM 9/28/2006 +0200, Anders wrote:

>I like the commandments list, but it has the usual problem of leaving what
>complexity (or extropy) is undefined. [ Right now one of our ethicists is
>actually wrestling with that issue, and is somewhat interested in an
>ethics like the one suggested by the commandments. I'll see if we can get
>him to build some academic quality philosophy around it :-) ]

Rather than "complexity" (too... complex... a term) or "extropy" 
(which now has a partisan ring to it, inevitably), perhaps:

Syntropy
 From Wikipedia
Syntropy is a term popularized by Buckminster Fuller but also 
developed by others to refer to an "anti-entropy" or "negentropy". 
The following definition, referencing Fuller, can be found on a web 
site on "Whole Systems": "A tendency towards order and symmetrical 
combinations, designs of ever more advantageous and orderly patterns. 
Evolutionary cooperation. Anti-entropy."[1] Fuller's use dates to 1956.

Just a thought.

Damien Broderick