Purpose expressed as unambiguously prioritized Goals.
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Choose what you care abut. Make multiple cares into systems--connect them.
Because complex systems are required to satisfy multiple goals, purpose must be expressed as Unambiguously Prioritized Goals. Without well-defined goals, the system cannot be effective and might randomly adopt or default to a goal that is regarded as unethical by the society that it exists in.
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See 15 Ps Purpose Matters.
A purpose is initially experienced as an idea or a concept by someone.
The human domain of imagination, insight, induction, deduction, association, reference, aesthetics, culture, all come into play in this wellspring of new and used ideas from which purposes arise.
This is a rather mysterious and magical domain—preconscious interaction of our histories and our environments yielding little emotional moments of cognition or recognition or “ah ha” or surprise that carry motivation with them. They move us. We often claim that we decided on the purpose, but it seems to me that powerful purposes carry me along, captivate me, so much so that I claim that they are mine, when really I am theirs.
This is the place where differences are experienced. Some differences are felt to be significant or insignificant. Some are felt to be true or potentially true. Some are felt to be useful or potentially useful. This is a dream-like domain where we may be more or less comfortable, where we spend more or less of our time.
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purpose | BrE ˈpəːpəs, AmE ˈpərpəs | A noun 1 (object) Zweck (Mask.) (intention) Absicht (Fem.) ▸ what is the purpose of doing that? was hat es für einen Zweck, das zu tun? ▸ he never did anything without a purpose er tat nie etwas ohne eine bestimmte Absicht ▸ you must have had some purpose in mind du musst irgendetwas damit bezweckt haben ▸ wander around with no particular purpose ziellos or ohne Ziel umherwandern ▸ answer or suit sb's purpose jmds. Zwecken dienen or entsprechen ▸ for a purpose zu einem bestimmten Zweck ▸ I did it for a purpose ich habe damit einen bestimmten Zweck verfolgt ▸ for the purpose of discussing sth um etw. zu besprechen ▸ on purpose mit Absicht absichtlich ▸ for purposes of zum Zwecke (+ Gen.) see also cross purposes, serve A3 2 (effect) to no purpose ohne Erfolg ▸ to some/little/good purpose mit einigem/wenig/gutem Erfolg 3 (determination) Entschlossenheit (Fem.) ▸ have a purpose in life in seinem Leben einen Sinn sehen ▸ give sb a purpose in life jmds. Leben (Dat.) einen Sinn geben 4 (intention to act) Absicht (Fem.) B transitive verb beabsichtigen