Goals for human planning

• Planning is compared with evolution. Evolution is the most powerful - and cruel, from a human point of view. Evolution does not plan, while planning man tries to avoid the cruel tests for fitness by founding his activities on a growing knowledge of evolution. Evolving man is studied in terms of his linguistic abilities which extend in for example technological domains. A linguistic complementarity for description and interpretation implies a steadily growing nature of knowledge and of planning. Planning processes are truncated for operability by the fixation of goals. Knowledge of a specific goal allows extended planning with a new goal on a higher level. A high-level goal for human planning is discussed, namely to complement the traditional fragmentary growth of knowledge with a systemsoriented growth, stimulated by revealing cycles in the knowledge process. Unfoldment of such cycles lead to a progressive knowledge of knowledge and to a planning for planning that satisfies our human drift for inquiry.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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