How long can a seed slumber before sprouting and spreading and disseminating into the horizon's sunset. Until now or soon. Factors necessary for the creation and existence of the new social organism shall soon be available and articulated. The time is ripe.

This blog spot is a continuation of the previous trajectory as it projects into the future: interactive cyberspace continues to grow and morph. The integration of cyberspace with everyday life approaches every second; it shall take only a few innovations to make a social break into a new world of opportunities to be exploited by new social species: social evolution -- deliberate, manifest, and exploiting the untamed wilderness of the interstices of the old social structure.

This is David; I promise to do better in the future.

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David

Still at it. Alternatium continues to rotate in cyberspace, heading for some distant planet. Will it be called "alien" life? Illegals coming up from earth? One can assume. Nevertheless, the future doesn't conform to national borders and neither does Alternatiium. Keep up the good work!

Premise: The basis for partipation in culture is rule driven. Definitions and rules define a synthetic social structure. This structure facilitates representation of a collective world view and speeds orientation and socialization, thereby speeding evolution and allowing traditionally excluded populations to participate. Since the structure is transparent, participants engage and leave as they choose. Since participants are owners, they share profits and cultural surplus. Participants exists in equilibrium with the structure which evolves according to the rules of Alternatium.

Still working on this project. ...in between walks to the coffee shop. One of these days, a new alternatium will rise at the noon sun.

Hidden in a pocket of cyberspace a tiny, germinal kernel of social material waits to be discovered. — a seed of chromosome analogous information sets for the generation of a social organism. With proper conditions, the embryo will grow into a socially intelligent species, capable of adapting and proliferating and benefiting humankind.

Why is this organizational model better than any other? First, the system is contained within a syntactical structure, designed to conceptualizes organizational and cultural imperatives—a collective description of the world and a set of operationally definable values: truth, freedom, justice, and fun. The question is how to best represent meaningful social attributes and meaning (semantics) into an evolving structure (syntax).

Anyone with questions or a desire to work on this project may contact David@ocugen.com.

An answer to the World's Problem requires a Vision. A Vision requires a plan. A plan must address the unequal distribution of resources and wealth about the planet. One begins with a particular social organization — a mutation of social structure that has more social intelligence than other organizations and that has more access available to its membership than other organizations. However, manufacturing a social medium for us humans requires human values; thus, the design must contain operational definitions that realize relative truth, freedom, justice, and fun, within the context of the goals and limitations of each enterprise. As an articulating symbolic structure, the organization can be interpreted and evaluated by the users to meet their needs, and the organization can be interpreted by the designers to see if their specifications are realized; thus the structure may be read as a statement and may be evaluated for its capacity to adapt and provide for its citizen-owners.

In designing a social structure to meet human criteria, possibilities are limitless, and thus one must begin with an initial and somewhat arbitrary set of conditions. Once a single structure as been created, it can modify itself and create other structures or it can be used as a design basis for new models. Some purposes will require specialized structures, but every project should have the following basic restrictions: people and cultures who interact within or without the structure shall be better off after interaction; the environment—flora, fauna, geology, air — shall be better off after interaction with the organization. Improvement in the quality of life and the environment is basic to survival and to the well being of all humans on earth.

The initial design goal has a moderate degree of complexity, as opposed to the obscure and labyrinthine complications of traditional culture; the complexity maximizes freedom, with minimal definitions and rules. The initial design model is for a complex adaptive system that floats between simplicity and randomness. It represents the most efficient use of rules to achieve its purpose as an adaptive social system. People using Alternatium as a social vehicle should not be put off by apparent complexity but should ask with what ease can the organization be made to function and meet the collective will of the membership. If one buys an airplane or a car, one wants to know the behavioral parameters, without becoming lost in the engineering details. The engineering details stand as backup and as a logical foundation for more abstract rules and behavior that enable an adapting population to free itself from poverty or disaster. Happiness and an accumulation of social surplus suggest a measure for success. A social surplus is that which remains over and beyond the efforts of a single individual in the wilderness.

Alternatium is a self-sustaining game that borrows from corporate law, logic, and simulations — such as nomic. The game axiomatically defines itself. Cultural, business, and political components change and evolve through feedback mechanisms.

Alternatium is an opening in social space.