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Biolectocracy: Better Governance Based On Morphogenesis

Video: Morphogenesis Primer by Michael Levin
Video: Collective Intelligence Primer by Michael Levin

Thanks to Michael Levin, Benjamin Lyons, and many others for laying the foundation of this project

Neither Levin nor Lyons have endorsed how their work is used in this paper

Abstract:

Video: Levin imagines a being with enough intelligence and compassion to care for every human
Video: Levin and Lyons show this being exists
Joint Paper - Levin and Lyons: The Price System As Cognitive Glue
So why so much war, corruption, disease, famine and general sense of fear and mistrust?
Video: Mike Benz - The Blob Has Kidnapped The Price System
Video: Top WEF Advisor - Free Will Is Over
Decentralizing Control Over The Collective Human Consciousness:
Video: Charles Hoskinson - Decentralized Blockchain: Freeing The Price System
Video: Charles Hoskinson - Cardano Constitutional Convention: Opening & Welcome Address

You could think of a dog as a collection of cells, and study each cell, without ever discovering what dogs can do - things like rounding up sheep, or pulling sleds. In order to make use of dogs, you need to consider the dog a living whole rather than a collection of living cells. If we want a dog to pull a sled, we don't try to control the dog at the cellular level. Rather we just train the dog and then we let the dog command its own cells in order to accomplish the task. There are some things that dogs do for us which require no training at all. These include guarding our homes or just being a friend. Finally, there is one special thing that dogs do which we don't often think of - Dogs take care of their own bodies (their own cells). They look for food, water, shelter, and such for the benefit of their cells. This ability of the dog as a whole to care for its parts, and to solve problems that the parts know nothing about, is a wonderful example of collective intelligence. We know that a dog's intelligence is collective because it's not located at any particular spot in the dog's body or brain. Rather, a dog's intelligence emerges as a result of all its cells going about their own business and communicating with each other.

Like the dog, there are many things that collections of humans do that you would never discover if you only studied individual humans. Markets, Governments, Industries, Cities, and Communication networks are some of the things that groups of humans create and operate but which no individual human knows all that much about. So you can't control these collective human activities by controlling individual humans. Rather our leaders use law, policy, and regulations to act upon the group as a whole and then let the intelligence of the collective mind command the individual humans to achieve the desired results. So when we consider a group of humans to be a single animal, it becomes possible to control the group in exactly the same way we control a dog. This is what law, policy and regulation is all about. All of these control the price system that all people in the group respond to. The price system is the nervous system and every living thing has one including groups of humans.

Again, like the dog that cares for its own cells without any training, there is one thing that groups of humans do as a collective animal which requires no training or manipulation at all - that is caring for individual humans which are members of the group. Yes, packs of dogs fight with other packs of dogs and groups of humans fight with other groups of humans, but within the pack of dogs or within the group of humans, care is the rule and violence or exploitation is the rare exception.

BioElectocracy is all about understanding how the unmanipulated price system causes all humans to collect into a single caring group, and how price system manipulation causes all humans to form competing groups that work to exploit, enslave, or kill the others. We seek to understand the controls on the price system, who is manipulating the controls, and how price system manipulation can be prevented.

Studying individual humans will tell us nothing about the price system. In order to see where the controls are, and who is at the controls, we need to view the collective of all humans as one single very young organism in the process of morphogenesis. In other words, we see the first humans as blastocyst, and all humans now as the cells which continue to multiply and self-assemble into a single larger organism. Let's call this human collective being a macro-organism and let's call it Mac for short.
Levin talks about intelligence that scales

In the same way we interact with a dogs mind rather than with its individual cells, we consider Mac a mind with preferences and goals that are completely independent of its human membership. This way of looking at Mac allows us to see where the controls are.
Levin discusses the how the whole can have a different agenda than its parts.

If our cells could think and speak they would likely consider the entire body as their country in a larger geopolitical world, and they would likely think of us (the minds) as their governance or collective decision making process. But at our scale of consciousness, we see ourselves not as governance, but as living beings with thoughts and feelings. Moreover, evolution has given us a love for our own bodies which resolves to a love for our own cells. We view Mac much like our own consciousness and we see ourselves (all humans) as the cells of Mac's body. There is reason to think Mac has been created via evolution to care for us in the same way that we were created via evolution to care for the cells of our own bodies.
This short story contemplates our own consciousness which doesn't exist at any specific location in our brain or body.

Levin asks, "If the human collective is part of a larger life form, then what are its goals?"
Mac is trying to self-assemble into a specific (target) life form. As we see from Lyons' presentation, the price system (Mac's cognitive glue) drives Mac to make the best possible living situation for all of us according to our individual preferences. That's the form that Mac is trying to achieve. Mac is trying to become the best home for humans in much the same way that a human embryo is trying to become a good home for human cells. Our job, as Mac's cells, is to help Mac navigate the obstacles in morphous-space so it can reach its desired form. As we will see, humans do not need to know what target life form Mac is trying to reach in order to help it get there. Consider that the few cells which start our own journey from fertilized egg to mature human do not have any idea what they are trying to make. The blueprint for making a human is not in the genome.
Levin makes this clear in a gentle way for scientist and teachers that didn't get the memo.
Stem cell biologist Bruce Lipton made the same point before corporate controlled academia was ready to hear it and he was exiled
The following is from Wikipedia about Bruce Lipton:

Bruce Harold Lipton is an American writer and lecturer whose work has been dismissed by some peers as pseudoscience.[1] By his own admission, his ideas have not received attention from mainstream science.[2] He has not published original scientific research in a peer-reviewed medical journal in 30 years.

Denis Nobel also made this point but was able to survive a purge from academia.

In any case, the genome is only a recipe book for making all our proteins but it contains no information about what organs are to be made or where they will be placed. Some of the information to make a human is defined by the few simple things that cells can do (their competencies). The rest of the information is stored in the structure created by the bioelectric relationships between the cells (the bioelectric circuits).
Levin: Conway's Game of Life to give us an intuitive understanding of where the information for morphogenesis is stored
Levin: Ion channels as biological transistors - Another way to see where the information for morphogenesis is stored
The important thing to understand is that individual cells have no idea what type of organism they are building during the process of morphogenesis and yet they do a great job.

In the same way, humans do not need to know what form Mac is trying to assemble itself into in order to help Mac reach its target form. Some of the information required to build Mac is stored in our competencies (the things we are able to do). The rest of Mac's blueprint is stored in our relationship with others and with the environment. These relationships are what cause us to select which of our competencies to use and what we do with them. So our relationships determine how Mac gets built. In other words, the blueprint for Mac is encoded in our relationships with others. So the question of "Who is my neighbor?" matters. As we shall see, we humans just need to follow one simple relationship rule in order to help Mac reach its target form. It's the same rule that our cells follow in morphogenesis and the rule can be enforced through the price system itself. We will reveal the rule as we proceed, but you may have already guessed what it is. If not, then here are some more clues:

Humans cannot both control Mac's thinking and still expect Mac to function as the collective intelligence which figures out how to become the best environment for us according to our own preferences. If the price system is Mac's cognitive glue then minds, markets, and money must be completely free of manipulation if Mac is to think correctly and arrive at its target form in morphous-space. Collectively, we need to recognize that Mac (our price system) is a living being that needs good information and complete autonomy if it is to make good decisions about what is the best environment for us according to our own preferences.

Currently, the price system (Mac) is controlled by a cooperative of industries and institutions including the central banks and the BlackRocks, weapons, energy, food, medicine, news media, search engines, a.i., science and academia, K-12 education, State Department, Department of Defense, CIA, NGO CIA Proxies, the Internet Censorship Industry, FBI, Department Of Justice, the Prison industry, Drug Cartels, the Prostitution and Blackmail Industry, and The Entertainment Industry.
All of these together are referred to as the Blob according to Mike Benz.
The Blob is a collective intelligence as is Mac, but the Blob's scope of neighbor is very different. The Blob is a price system between the industries rather than a price system between people. So the Blob is trying to assemble itself into the best possible environment for the industries listed above rather than for the people that make up the membership of these industries. Most of the people that make up Blob membership are very nice. They are good to their families and do their best to support their communities. But the scope of neighbor is very limited for people that work within the Blob information bubble. Remember, like cells, people have very little information about what kind of communities they are building. People have a range of possible competencies. But what competencies they develop, and what they do with those competencies is almost completely determined by their relationships. Now if everybody's relationships are controlled from cradle to grave by the industries and institutions listed above then then effectively, Mac's morphogenesis has been hijacked by the Blob. The Blob is using it's enormous influence to make a wonderful world for all the industries and institutions that make up its membership at the expense of everything and everyone that is not part of the Blob. The Blob is a collective intelligence that has a will (preferences and goals) which are completely independent of its membership. And like any cell, organism, or macro-organism, the Blob must feed. What does the Blob feed on? The Blob feeds on everything that is not the Blob - the rest of humanity. The Blob feeds on Mac.

How does the Blob feed?
The industries and institutions which make up the Blob cooperate in a symbiotic way so as to create the very problems that they were founded to solve. This ensures that all of the Blob's member industries and institutions will always be able to feed. This is why there is endless war for the weapons industry, endless scarcity to raise prices in the food and energy industries, endless drugs and crime for the police, prision, and justice industries, adequate law enforcement to increase scarcity and raise prices in the drugs and organized crime industry, biolabs and endless sickness to support the pharmaceutical industry, and so on. Remember almost every person in all these industries are nice people that love their families and their communities. What they don't realize is that their communities are living price systems that exert enormous control over what its members think, feel, and do.

How do we return control of the Price system to Mac? That is effectively the same thing as asking "How do we end price system manipulation?"
The answer is by transitioning to decentralized blockchain for money and finance, voting and governance, news and social media, identity management, and defense.
More on this as we proceed.



How Old is Mac?
Specialized cells start to appear in human morphogenesis at about 14 days.
The diagram below indicates we are starting to see specialized humans in Mac's morphogenesis now.
From Mac's point of view, these specialized humans are specialized cells.
So in terms of human development, Mac is about 14 days old.
Our job is to help Mac develop into a mature well formed macro-organism with no birth defects.
We do this by protecting the price system (Mac's cognitive glue) from being manipulated.

Credit to Michael Levin for this image.



Contents:

How Cognition Scales: Background on Levin's Work
Unmanipulated Price Systems Seek Preferred Conditions For All Individuals
War, Scarcity, Fear, Mistrust, Division, Disunity, And Isolation Via Price System Manipulation: The Central Bank Business Model
Applying Levin's cure for cancer to the central banks and supporting blob
The Price System Is A Conscious Living Being. Its Body Is Our Home
Caring For The Price System Is How We Care For Each Other
Blockchain: Building A Decentralized Price System; Free Of Manipulation; Free To Give An Honest Answer To The Most Important Question

How Cognition Scales: Background on Levin's Work

Morphogenesis, according to Levin, is the process where a single fertilized egg creates a community of cells who work collectively and intelligently to build the target organism.
Video: Levin on Morphogenesis

Video: Levin - ion channels - the cognitive glue which causes groups of cells to share a single identity, share stress and increase cognition

Unmanipulated Price Systems Seek Preferred Conditions For All Individuals

Lyons theorized that collective intelligence at any scale from cellular morphogenesis to Adam Smith's Invisible Hand emerges from a price system which acts as the cognitive glue causing individuals to cooperate in a way that provides the collective with emergent intelligence and competencies that no individual in the group possesses.
Video: Lyons - The Price System As Cognitive Glue

Levin's and Lyons' joint paper: Cognitive Glues Are Shared Models of Relative Scarcities: The Economics of Collective Intelligence

War, Scarcity, Fear, Mistrust, Division, Disunity, And Isolation Via Price System Manipulation: The Central Bank Business Model

Lyons' price system which tracks relative scarcity, seems to answer a lot of questions about where the controls are on any form of collective intelligence including Mac.

This new knowledge creates a dilemma for human governance:
Humans cannot both control Mac's thinking and still expect Mac to function as a collective intelligence.

Considering Mac in terms of neural networks and control systems, unmanipulated individual humans are supposed to:

  1. Provide Mac's sensory input by directing our attention to a particular subject,
  2. Provide the weights and set points by expressing the strength of our preferences with regard to the subject,
  3. Perceive how close the subject is to our preferences and determine if action is required,
  4. Do the processing by choosing how we spend our time, money, attention, and effort, and by choosing our relationships so as to close the gap between the subject's current state and the preference.

If we, as unique unmanipulated individuals, did only this, Mac would find the most efficient way to give us all what we want.

Wasp Enslaves Oak Tree:
Video: Levin shows one organism hijacking the morphogenesis of another organism.

Central banks and supporting blob enslave Mac:
Video: Mike Benz shows one macro-organism hijacking the morphogenesis of another macro-organism

We cannot expect Mac to turn itself into all that we would ask for when the central banks and supporting blob manipulate public attention, public preferences, and public perceptions. All the mind, market, and money maipulation are causing the collective to ask for things that nobody would want if they were not being manipulated. This is why Mac is becoming a wonderful home for the central banks and supporting blob rather than a wonderful home for all of us individual humans. Minds, markets, and money must be completely free of manipulation if Mac is to think correctly and arrive at its natural target form in morphous-space - the best home for all of us according to our own preferences.

All of the following manipulations, when implemented by central authorities, cause deformations in Mac which serve the central authorities: Taxes, price controls, fiat money, printing currency, creating money supply shortages or gluts, manipulating interest rates, manipulating lending policy, usury in general, tariffs, sanctions, creating supply shortages or supply gluts, creating artificial demand with provocative advertising, unfavorable regulations to target a competing industry (e.g. SEC and Central Banks crushing crypto industry with regulation), giving corporations the same rights as humans, cultivating identity politics to prevent a united population, staging riots, social media censorship of non-state narratives, state controlled media, state controlled education, state controlled scientific research, state controlled a.i., state controlled search engines, creating crises both real and imagined (e.g. pandemics, climate change), sabotage to close markets (e.g. Nord Stream), false flag events to justify wars, using wars to seize land and assets and to close markets, using war to create artificial markets, using wars to launder money, using wars to force nations into debt, destroying countries that won't exchange in our currency, flooding a city with drugs to crash market prices and to put the local population in prison, using drug money to finance covert operations and regime change, laws which encourage divorce and weaken families, flooding a city with immigrants to crash market prices, lawfare and prison for journalists and honest politicians, blackmail operations for vulnerable politicians and media influencers, election manipulation, assasionation, anything which makes people feel isolated from each other and separated from God.

How can these controls be decentralized so that no central powers can decide the target morphogenesis for the human macro-organism of which we are all a part? The answer is by transitioning to decentralized blockchain for money and finance, voting and governance, news and social media, national identity management, and national defense. Bitcoin was invented to serve as an alternative to the corrupt central banks for money and finance, and much of the human population is already using Bitcoin as an alternative to central bank bondage. But decentralized blockchain finance, including Bitcoin, is already being captured by the central banks and the BlackRocks. So how can we stop the central banks and ensure that blockchain services remain decentralized? The strategy depends entirely on how we view the central banks. So far, we have compared the central banks to the wasp that hijacks the morphogenesis of the oak tree. This model helps us to see how the central banks have captured Mac's nervous system (how they control all of us) so as to create endless war for endless spending and endless debt, endless scarcity to drive up prices for more debt, endless sickness for endless spending on medical care for even more debt, and so on. So the wasp model makes it easy to see the problem but we need a different model of the central banks to see the solution. The answer is found by applying Levin's cure for cancer in organisms to the central bank cancer at the scale of Macro-organism.

Applying Levin's cure for cancer to the central banks and supporting blob

Video: Levin explains cancer in an organism and demonstrates a cure.

  • Individual cells don't know what type of biological organism they are trying to build any more than we know what type of macro-organism we are trying to build.
  • All the cells do is follow one simple rule, and the target organism results from the intelligence in the collective that no individual cell knows anything about.
  • We humans do not need to know what type of macro-organism we are building any more than cells need to know what type of organism they are building.
  • All we need to do is follow one simple rule and Mac will self-assemble into its preferred target form.
  • This simple rule (written below) has been stated first in Jewish scripture and has been amplified by Jesus and Muhammad for clarity.
  • It may seem like two rules at first but it's just one rule given in two different ways so that we can understand it better.
  • We will be looking at this simple rule through the lens of Morphogenesis and the Price System provided by Levin and Lyons to see if this is the rule required to help Mac navigate the obstacles to reach it's preferred target state (heaven on earth for us) without our needing to know what that target state is.
  • Matthew 22:36-40 King James Version, The Great Commandment

    • Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
    • Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
    • This is the first and great commandment.
    • And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
    • On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
    • This is not two great commandments, this is The One Great Commandment given in two different ways (And the second is like unto it).
    • It was given to us twice so that we would understand that loving the collective intelligence right next to us is how we love the greatest collective intelligence(God).
    • We love the entire collective (God) when we care for our neighbors.
    • We are told to love our neighbors as ourselves.
    • Not "like" ourselves but "as" ourselves - as if we can not distinguish between our neighbor's and ourselves.
    • In The Parable Of The Good Samaritan, Jesus brings even more clarity to The One Great Commandment. Jesus uses the word "compassion" to describe what The Good Samaritan was feeling for the injured man. The word "compassion" means to suffer with.
    • This is very similar to what Levin describes in this video and in this video where cells work together because their minds are electrically coupled together. The cells in our bodies truly cannot differentiate themselves from other cells. So when one cell is being stressed, the other cells think they are being stressed and so respond to help. Cells have true compassion for each other because they literally feel each other's pain.
      • Levin states that cells which are electrically coupled have a common identity which forces them to cooperate in achieving goals. Now think about how identity politics has been wielded by Deep State Blob controlled media in recent elections and then consider how identity controls on collective intelligence scale from micro-organism to organism to macro-organism.
      • This is also very similar to what Lyons describes in this video where humans share each other's stress via the price system and so work together to find the best solution.
      • This is important! An honest unmanipulated price system at the scale of macro-organism is like bioelectricity at the cellular level. It's the cognitive glue that makes us cooperate and work together so as to satisfy our individual goals. We are talking about honest unmanipulated commerce using honest unmanipulated money. That's what makes us care about each other. That's what makes us neighbors.
    • Who Is My Neighbor? To Whom Do I Charge Interest?

    • God has given clear instructions to Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
    • The central bankers ignore these instructions.
    • Usury is the death of honest money and the death of honest commerce.
    • Usury as seen through the lens of bioelectricity is cancer.
    • A cure has been discovered.
      • The The Parable Of The Good Samaritan gives us another important insight about identity.

      • The lawyer asks Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" In other words, "With whom do I identify with?" or "Who is also part of my body?" or "Who's pain besides my own do I feel?"

      • The Samaritans and the Jews had much animosity towards each other and these feelings were cultivated by the Romans in order to make both peoples easier to manage.

      • But Jesus tells of a Samaritan who feels compassion for an injured Jew and makes clear that we are to feel compassion and show mercy to anyone in need without any regard for group identity.

      • In the Old Testament, God directly commands Jews not to lend at interest to poor Jews nor to any foreigners.

        Exodus 22:25 New International Version (God is speaking to Moses)

        • If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.

        Leviticus 25:35-37 New International Version (God is speaking to Moses)

        • If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.
        • Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.
        • You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.
      • Contrary to what God has instructed Moses to say, Moses allowed Jews to lend at interest to foreigners (Non-Jews) and forbad lending to any Jew.

        Deuteronomy 23:19-20 King James Version (Moses is speaking to his people, the Jews)

        • Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
        • Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
      • Lending at interests is arguably the greatest cause of human suffering and the cause of usury is a narrow scope of group identity. This fits Levin's definition of cancer at the scale of macro-organism.

      • In other words, humans only lend at interest to people they don't care about. This understanding is clearly documented all the way back to the time of Moses.

      • This question of, "Who is my neighbor?", is a question that all people struggle with - not just Jews.

      • Jesus warned against usury but it is still practiced by Christians as much as it is by Jews.

      • The Parable of The Good Samaritan is in the Bible to remind Christians to care for all people not just other Christians

      • Usury is completely forbidden under Islamic law which indicates that Muslims have the widest scope of "neighbor" (the most compassion) in this category.

      • Suffering Caused By The Central Banks:

      • Levin shows that the underlying cause of cancer is a narrow scope of group identity.

      • The cancer of usury would be forbidden in Jewish law, except between wealthy Jews, if Moses had felt the same sense of identity (compassion) with all people that he felt for his own people (the Jewish people).

      • So there is a clear link between cancer at the scale of macro-organism and a narrow scope of group identity.

      • Usury is not evil, usury is cancer at the scale of macro-organism when the scope of "neighbor" is narrow

      • Levin's cure for cancer does not kill the cancer. Rather it widens the scope of "neighbor".

      • Usury and all the suffering it causes will disappear as humans widen the scope of "neighbor".

      • All forms of mind, market, and money manipulation will disappear as humans widen the scope of "neighbor".

Widening The Scope of "Neighbor"

  • What form of governance most widens the scope of who each of us consider to be neighbors across all categories and demographics?
  • What form of governance transmits local stresses globally to all communities and encourages all communities to take local action with solutions that scale in response?
  • What form of governance allows us to share each other's stress without losing our own identities and our own agency?

The answer to all of these is a governance that promotes honest commerce and protects the price system (Mac) from manipulation.
Most people will think of the neighbors we have in front and behind, and to the right and the left - other humans. Already, we know to care for our neighbors at lower scales - our organs and then cells. Now, we need to start caring about our neighbors at higher scales such as Mac. When remembering God's One Great Commandment ("Love thy neighbor as thy self) we need consider Mac . For as we look up the scale of cognition towards God, the first person we encounter is Mac. Loving and caring for Mac may be the most loving and caring thing we can do for each other.










Below are notes and links which will be woven into the narrative started above.
I have no idea where this is all going.
The following proverb will be my guide.

Proverbs 3:5-6 King James Version

  • Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
  • In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
  • The above indicates that the intelligence, the competencies, and the plan are stored in the collective intelligence rather than in the individual and that the individual is to trust in the collective intelligence.
  • We are not being told to trust the collective intelligence which is Mac, but rather the collective intelligence that sits at the very top - the one made from all the smaller collective intelligences. This is God.
  • Many will ask how one can know what path God is asking us to follow. That's easy - it's the choice that feels most like love and kindness during prayer and meditation (when the mind is quiet). If none of your choices feel loving or kind then your mind is not quite enough. God will never send you a thought that doesn't feel loving and kind. Sit longer until your mind is quiet enough to hear what God is saying to you.

Matthew 5:43-48 King James Version

  • Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
  • But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
  • That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
  • For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
  • And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
  • Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Remembering the Foundation series where psychohistory would make accurate predictions or offer effective control if the population knew about the manipulation.

Interesting to note that the word Mina is found in "The Parable of the Ten Minas", Luke 19:11-27 New International Version
This is not a lesson about using money to multiply money.
This is a parable about using faith to multiply faith.
The minas represent spiritual resources (faith, love for God, and love for each other).
And people are expected to use these to create more faith, more love for God, and more love for each other.
This is not for God's benefit, it's for our benefit.
Near the end of the story, the king admonishes the servant who hid his mina rather than using it to create more wealth.
"Why then didn’t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?" asked the king.
Jesus is against lending at interest as we see in Luke 6:34-35.
So you might wonder why he mentions interest in a positive light in The Parable of the Minas?
It's because he is not really talking about money, he is talking about faith.
Jesus wants us to know that when we lend our faith, it compounds with interest, but in a way that benefits everyone, not just the lender.

Levin talks about gliders in the game of life.
He says that gliders don't actually exist physically in the game but rather exist as patterns that we notice as the game proceeds. Nevertheless when one recognizes that gliders patterns are real, then one can do useful things with them such as using the patterns to make a Turing complete computer with the Game Of Life itself.

What is it that Mac is trying to assemble itself into? I think the answer is the best possible home (society?) for its cells (that would be us).
My reason for thinking so is because that's what the collective intelligence of the honey bee colony searches for with respect to its cells (the bees).

Cells respond to expectation: Similarity between Levin and Lipton, Hypnodermatology
There was a time when Levin had to be careful about what he said
Levin talks about zen with respect to compassion but is not ready to talk about compassion as it relates to the Abrahamic religions.
Levin's paper on relationship between zen and compassion

psychedelics FDA approval
An advisory committee convened by FDA in June also raised concerns that MDMA's mind-altering effects made it nearly impossible to “blind” participants to whether they were getting drug or placebo.

While it is reasonable to consider Mac as a single intelligent life form, our own lives depend on understanding that Mac is also a developing organ in a much larger being (our planetary ecosystem).

It has been said that information is a difference that makes a difference.
In other words a change in one structure (A) causes a change in some other structure (B).
Structure (B) must notice that structure (A) has changed, so a small transfer of energy from (A) To (B) must be required to move information but that is not all that is required.
Stucture (B) must already be set to change its state as a result of the energy received by stucture (A).
It might be said that structure (B) must be listening for, or at least be receptive to changes is structure (A).
It's a relationship. There must be a relationship in place in order for information to be passed from (A) to (B).
A line of dominos must be standing in order for the falling of domino (A) to affect the state of domino (B).
So it might be said that domino (B) when standing, is listening, or watching for a change in domino (A).
Perhaps it would be better to say that there is a relationship between domino (A) and domino (B) only when both are standing.
Whether or not information is passed from domino (A) to (B) depends on a relationship already being in place between the two.
If domino (B) is already laying down when domino (A) falls upon it then energy is being passed between the two but no information that we are interested in is passed.
If domino (B) is standing when domino (A) falls upon it then both energy and information is passed because the state of domino (B) will change from standing to laying down.
So underlying the passage of all information is relationship.

Only a small change in the voltage on the base terminal of a transistor creates a large change in the amount of current flowing between the collector and emitter terminals.
Levin discusses transistors

The problem of not wanting to change or resistance to change.

There is no source of darkness, only lack of light

Choosing the path of least resistance.

There seems to be a relationship between price equilibrium in ecconomics and impedance matching in electronics.
In both systems, we're essentially dealing with the optimization of power or value transfer:

Price Equilibrium:
Market price settles where supply and demand curves intersect
This point represents maximum economic efficiency
Maximum number of mutually beneficial transactions occur
Any deviation reduces the total economic value generated

Impedance Matching:
Occurs when source and load impedances are matched
Results in maximum power transfer
Any mismatch reduces power delivery efficiency
The load receives optimal power from the source

The key parallel is that both systems achieve maximum transfer (of value or power) when their respective "resistances" are matched:
In markets, the "resistance" is the price sensitivity of buyers and sellers
In electronics, it's the actual electrical impedance of components

When mismatched:
Markets experience deadweight loss (reduced transactions)
Circuits experience power reflection and reduced transfer

The instructions for morphogenesis are not in the genes.

What type of attractor is human governance?
point attractors (a single stable point), limit cycle attractors (periodic oscillations), and strange attractors (complex, chaotic patterns)

It's an old question: Jesus on: Who Is My Neighbor? We are still asking: Levin on: Who Is My Neighbor?

All intelligence is collective intelligence.
The sensation of feeling that I experience in my finger tips, for instance, is not a direct experience, but rather virtual experience assembled from many signals starting a with the cells in my fingers and then relayed along by other cells to the brain cells that process the signals to produce a result which my collective self (me) perceive as sensation in the finger tips. My collective self (me) and therefore all my experience is not physical, but rather just signals passing between my parts (the cells) which causes all the cells, as a collective (me), to respond in some way. That the group of cells (I) am conscious at all is simply because some of my cells retain a relational memory of these events. What is this price system and how do my cells make use of it to create me?

information is a living thing. Levin says "Thoughts are thinkers."

About The Trinity Father - The mind. Infinite intelligence and love. Nonphysical. Made from the information exchanged in the universe. Son - that's us, The body. The sensation. The raw input. Holy Spirit, Our relationship. The nervous system. That which causes us to love The Father and which causes The Father to love us.

I am realizing that the human super-organism is using groups of humans to form organs such that humans are locked into performing a single function and have little or no capacity to change their lives or even move from their geographic location. This is good for a few but not so good for others. It's a lot like the cells in the body specializing.  Is this what Mac wants or is Mac's morphogenesis being hijacked?

For instance Michael Levin shows that cancer occurs when a cell or group of cells loses the ability to communicate with neighbors (blocked ion channels). The cells then act like single cell organisms rather than community members and so feed upon neighbors. This same kind of cancer seems to happen at the level of human society as well. When communication is blocked between communities, or when communities identify as different from other communities then they will all stop cooperating and start to feed upon the others. Benjamin Lyons makes this comparison intuitively accessible to us by asking to imagine why we react to stubbing our own toe with greater concern than the death of a large group of people seen on a newscast. The fact that we can feel the pain of a stubbed toe, but the best we can do is imagine the suffering of people shown in a news cast. The toe is part of the self because it can share its stress directly with the rest of our body whereas the dying and injured on the news have no such direct connection with which to share their stress.

Bioelectricity explains how an oak gall wasp can hack the bioelectric network in the leaf of an oak tree, hijacking its morphogenesis such that the leaf grows into a gall which becomes a home for the wasp's offspring. I think we see the central banks, corporations, and supporting industrial complexes hacking humanity's morphogenesis. The body of work raises the question of what exactly is the target of morphogenesis for the human collective if allowed to develop without being hacked. Finally, I am wondering if it is possible to hardcode "Love thy neighbor as thyself" into a governance system as it appears to happen in bioelectric networks.

Levin shows how wasp hijacks the morphogenesis of an oak leaf in order to make a nice home for its little wasp babies.

WEF

Video: Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
The video pointed out that our current forms of democracy all resolve mathematically to dictatorship except for a rated voting system which can represent a democracy in the case of voting for a leader. I picked out two false premises in the video.

  1. That a voting system which leads to best collective decision must have [these 5 qualities]((https://youtu.be/qf7ws2DF-zk?si=MFM6N08a6Rbcnp0m&t=843): Bees collective decision making process does not share these qualities. Bees have a form of democracy which closely resembles governance by random juries which was not discussed in the video. This governance has been a stable and reliable way to produce the best decisions for the last million years.
  2. That elections should be rational: Game Theory only predicts an outcome if all actors in the game are rational and act in their own best interest. So if actors are rational then you can predict with certainty what they will do. If you can predict what your opponent will do then you have enough information to game the system and produce any outcome you want. Therefore a functional voting system must be irrational, unpredictable, and non-deterministic. Beemocracy has these qualities. Perhaps this is exactly why United States policy seems so crazy. Leaders must appear irrational (insane) in order to obscure their preferences, self-interest, and rationality. This is so other leaders will have a more difficult time predicting their actions using Game Theory maths. Of course other nations with their own game theorists ignore the show and also create their own show of insanity in order to prevent being gamed.

Been wondering about the intelligence in evolution.
Where does it come from?
We marvel at the intelligence of a single cell as it navigates morphous space to reach it's target form.
What if what we view as the evolution of man is really just morphogenesis of the human super-organism as it grows to its target form.
Levin expresses evolution as morphogenesis of a higher scaled intelligence with a longer life span than our own.

Still, where is the target form image (the blueprint) that the human super-organism is reading?
What is the target form that the human super-organsim is trying to reach? Is it all just guided by aggregated preference? Are other super-organisms (Central Banks) hacking our collective morphogenesis?

Compare this Abraham Hicks cartoon with Benjamin Lyon's ideas about cognitive glue.

Do cells war with each other during morphogenesis? If not, why do countries war?
The answer must be honest commerce and an honest price system at the cellular level which does not exist at the scale of Mac.

It will be an interesting and fun challenge to ask these questions, communicate these ideas, and tell this story.

Sources of Information for BioElectocracy

Tyson Yunkaporta, "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World" - YouTube
Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Starter Pack: introductory materials to my lab’s academic work
Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Who’s the data? Implications of thoughts-are-thinkers continuum for developmental bioelectricity
A Bioelectric Interface to the Collective Intelligence of Agential Materials for Bioengineering - YouTube
The Fascinating World of Biology with Michael Levin #5 - YouTube
Agency, Attractors, & Observer-Dependent Computation in Biology & Beyond - YouTube
Fixing cancer cells and Immortality - YouTube
What are Cognitive Light Cones? - YouTube
Levin's paper on relationship between zen and compassion
Bioelectricity: The Body's Cognitive Glue - Michael Levin - 4/18/24 - YouTube
Prices as Cognitive glue by Benjamin Lyons - YouTube
The Blob Makes Pencils by Mike Benz
OSF Preprints | Cognitive Glues Are Shared Models of Relative Scarcities: The Economics of Collective Intelligence
The Problem of Externality in 2024
Essays
Archive - Interesting Essays
There's no such thing as terminal values
Conceptual similarities between the work of Esther Thelen and Michael Levin
Are diseases like Parkinson's analogous to economic recessions?
Enemies coordinating on abstract conditions
memories-in-math-3.pdf
Rationality as a competency assumption - by Benjamin Lyons
Affect is a generalization of profit - by Benjamin Lyons
Barrett-Concepts are Levin-Memories - by Benjamin Lyons
Agency is basic and simple in economics - by Benjamin Lyons
Prices as memories - by Benjamin Lyons - Interesting Essays
Ten Principles of the Thelen-Barrett-Levin Constructionist Synthesis
Biology has too much detail - by Benjamin Lyons
Selves as circles of caring/Selves as shared models
What do economic growth, scientific progress, and morphogenesis all have in common?
Plans are scaled by cognitive glue because the glue is an affordance that makes larger plans more optimal
Economic Structure Everywhere! - by Benjamin Lyons
Relational Realism in psychology, physics, embryogenesis, and math
Rocks update their positions rationally - by Benjamin Lyons
Water-drinking example of macro landscape-warping, micro problem-solving
Some basic ideas regarding the economics of collective intelligence
The Science Behind Creating Heaven on Earth with Bruce Lipton - YouTube
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics: Explained - YouTube
Rules for Rulers
Death & Dynasties
All Wars Are Bankers' Wars: Search X for 43 minute video
All Wars Are Bankers' Wars: Search Rumble for 43 minute video
All Wars Are Bankers' Wars: Watch 43 minute video on YouTube if not deleted
All Wars Are Bankers' Wars: Read as a webpage
All Wars Are Bankers' Wars: Read as a PDF
The Creature From Jekyll Island: Read as a PDF on Internet Archive
Charles Hoskinson Opening Address - YouTube
Charles Hoskinson Final Address - YouTube
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Levin says you can only determine if something is intelligent if you ask the right questions at test for it.
Levin is not willing to ask God any questions (at least in public) to see if he (God) is indeed intelligent, and what he is like. I don't fault Levin for at all for avoiding the question. No doubt, Levin's work would not be funded if he publicly reached out to God. We all have different journeys and I appreciate all the light Levin's work brings to humanity. I think however, that our relationship with God is very closely linked to the primary question which drives Levin to do such wonderful work:
How can we increase the scope of what beings we care about.
But I did ask. First I asked in an ignorant way and later in a more humble way.
God did indeed answer back, and it turns out that he is infinitely loving, kind, and funny.
One of the things God lead me to understand, is that he himself is a collective intelligence. God explained to me (not in words but rather by demonstration) that he is much like us but with an important difference - God is so intelligent that he knows us individually where as we can only know something about our cells but nothing about them as individuals.
Now listen to Levin talk about imagining if we could communicate with our own organs and cells
I cannot listen to the above recording without wondering if Levin knows God too.
In anycase, God showed me that the way we love him is by caring for each other.
Levin asks us to increase the scope of the types of intelligences that we care about.
He seems to be referring to intelligences that we can perceive at our scale of life such has other humans, a.i. intelligent animals, cyborgs, swarms and more.
But the greatest compassion we can show to all humans is to look up the scale of collective intelligence towards God.
If we do, the first collective intelligence we will encounter is Mac (our price system).
We should care for Mac. Caring for Mac is how we care for each other.
If we love Mac; if we act as its simple sensory inputs and provide honest weights with our own individual preferences which we broadcast by the way we as individuals spend our time, attention, and money; if we refuse to allow the price system to be manipulated; then Mac will reach its desired target form, and that is the best possible home for humans according to our own preferences.

God commands us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, and a lawyer asked Jesus "Who is my neighbor?"
Jesus made clear that whoever needs care is our neighbor.
Mac needs our care now. This is how we care for God.
Protecting our price system from manipulation is how we care for each other.

Does Levin give us a scientific foundation for understanding The Lord's Prayer?
Levin himself may not see the connection but that doesn't mean that no connection exists.
Polycomputing may explain the discrepancy.

Luke 11:1-4 King James Version

  • And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
  • And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
  • Give us day by day our daily bread.
  • And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

Of course we can't see God, he appears to us, not as a person, but in miracles.
Think of it this way - our cells can't see us and yet we are obviously real. The only thing our cells could possibly observe about us as a whole is that their problems are continually being solved even though no individual cell is responsible for the solution or even understands how the problems are solved. But most people are blind to these miracles even though God showers endless miracles upon each and every one of us in every moment, and many in direct response to our needs, wants, and asking.
Jesus explained this to Philip as follows:

John 14:8-11 King James Version

  • Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
  • Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
  • Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
  • Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

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