I'm not really a postrat and have read very little of Chapman *beyond* his few essays on Kegan. So I'll answer for me rather than them generally.
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @SilverVVulpes and
There is a fuzzy and yet shared notion of "best" in many of these circumstances (it's easier to see in the s/w dev or engineer examples). It's certainly not some linear combination of "minimize cost, minimize probability of bridge collapse, maximize car capacity..." but...
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @SilverVVulpes and
... if you sat in the conference room and listened to two civil engineers argue over each of these factors, they clearly are goal-oriented. But it's often not productive to try to come up with a formal system to describe their goal!
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @SilverVVulpes and
You can take one version of this to be a strong-form claim that a Grand Unified System *doesn't exist at all*. Another version would be a weaker-form claim that finding the Grand Unified System is probably a waste of effort relative to doing something else.
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weak form is utilitarian, strong form is theological weak form wins
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