This project, though concentrating on the technical core of collaborative understanding and language, embodies a comprehensive vision of collective human self-guidance. We are considering and proposing a network-based model of idealized cybernetic democracy, where tough issues are mediated in balanced and inclusive ways.
This vision is motivated by a sense of profound global transition and apparent urgency. This vision is "integral" in that is it based on what appears to be the best information and insight the human race has gathered, brought together across all sectors and disciplines and cultures and departments, into a comprehensive and interconnected "division of labor" outlining the essence of a collaborative project for human well being.
Governance, democracy, justice, wisdom and ethics -- are all defined in the context of "cybernetics" and a simple homeostatic model of balance in the context of the whole. It is a vision of a networked world, where recursive levels of interconnections between all activities help the human community find balance, wisdom and grace in all things.
All values, all laws, all "guard rails and guidelines" are defined by boundary values in dimensions.
In this design, everything in reality is balanced with respect to the whole, in the context of the whole, or One. The One is replicated at all levels of experience. Each level of Whole has its own native center-point of balance, and wholes are nested within wholes, and interconnected in every way -- always voluntarily, never by compulsion.
This recursive center-point is ORIGIN -- replicated everywhere at every level of scale, as the ideal guidance point and polestar -- for the individual, for the family, for the group or neighborhood or city or nation. Everything converges towards the universal center in waves of "homeostatic relaxation".
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