Advancing Human Sovereignty

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Advancing Human Sovereignty

Sovereignty relates to the capacity for and demonstration of

good (omni-positive) choice-making.

We can define sovereignty more formally as the product of

sentience, intelligence, and agency.

Sentience relates to one’s ability to sense the world

(including inner sensing of self and vicarious inner sensing
of others). It includes qualities like awareness, empathy,
mindfulness, depth of feeling, care, sensitivity, compassion,
perceptiveness, etc. It represents the sensory capacity of a
complex adaptive system. The zenith of the development of
sentience is the archetype of the bodhisattva (all aware/ all
caring).

Intelligence relates to one’s ability to make sense of the

world (processing sensory data to inform action). It includes
capacities like critical thinking, systems thinking, lateral
thinking, abstraction, discernment, problem solving, design
methodology, clarity, total cognitive bandwidth, insight, etc.
It represents the information processing capacity of a
complex adaptive system. The zenith of the development of
intelligence is the archetype of the polymath (all knowing).

Agency relates to one’s ability to act on and in the world. It

includes attributes like will, drive, responsibility,
purposefulness, discipline, resilience, impulse control,
courage, focus, follow through, etc. It represents the
actuator capacity of a complex adaptive system. The zenith
of development of agency is the archetype of a world-creator
(all powerful).

These three core capacity-types are proposed as irreducible

(orthonormal) vectors that define the phase space of
sovereignty…with the volume of the shape formed by the
degree of development on each of the individual axis being
roughly proportional to one’s developmental stage of
sovereignty. (This volume will always be most limited by the
least developed axis and optimized by near symmetrical
development of all three.)

Uniquely expressed, bodhisattva, polymath, world-creators as

the new normal is our aim.

Notes:

1. Intelligence, sentience, and agency, map to the more

common notions of mind, heart, and will, or
thinking, feeling, and acting. The evolution of all
three being a way to think about integral human
development.
2. All complex adaptive systems can be defined by
closed loop processing of sensory input (sentience),
information processing (intelligence), and actuator
output (agency)…where the effects of actions on the
world can in turn be sensed, creating closed loop
feedback and learning. Biologically, these three
always and only co-evolve (as there would be no
evolutionary advantage of any of the three
uncoupled from the others, and considerable
disadvantage). Our conscious development can and
should be informed by this evolutionary dynamic
(evo/devo). Evolution itself can be meaningfully
thought of as aligning with an arrow of increasing
sovereignty.
3. Because sovereignty is not defined here as roughly
synonymous with agency (as it is commonly
thought o ), or even at the same level of
dimensionality…but as the phase space of the
product of agency with sentience and intelligence…
increase in sovereignty simultaneously optimizes
for agency and communion. Ie, it is a complex
systems generating function for high coherency
across scalable groups (where the functional
scalability is proportional to the sovereignty score
distribution of the population, ie, greater
sovereignty gives rise to higher Dunbar numbers.
4. For those familiar with integral philosophy, all of
the nuance appropriate to understanding
development vs typology in general applies here. As
do states vs stages. The product of three
developmental indices can be validly interpreted as
a developmental index. People may have equivalent
sovereignty volume with quite different topologies,
and in different locations within the phase space
(typology). And people may and indeed and
generally do have fluctuating access to sovereignty
(states) as a result of many variables — that tend to
vary around more slowly and stably evolving center
points (stages). (This model is of course radically
simplified [like all models], but valuable.)
5. For those familiar with the Immanent Metaphysics,
this model is a formal triplicate, with intelligence
mapping to the mode of the omniscient, agency to
the mode of the transcendent, and sentience to the
mode of the imminent. This is a formal type
isomorphism so the axioms fully apply here.
http://www.magic-
flight.com/pub/uvsm_1/idm_foundations_01.pdf