It is imperative, now that high levels of extra-biological power are a persistent feature of human life, to move our social organization, and our systems that express our social organization, farther away from the primate (rigid, male centric, violence ordered, social hierarchy), and more toward the male/female pair bonding form of social organization created through our evolutionary split from the primate species.

As our collective and individual ability to generate and use extra-biological force has expanded far beyond our biological boundaries yet we still culturally conceive of the purpose of this boundary transcending force as serving primarily an exclusively private individual purpose. I propose that we must develop a purpose that matches our degree of extra-biological forcefulness, existence as part of the biological life of this planet, and the fact that we are conscious and that the boundaries forming our sense of individuality are semi-permeable. I propose a starting point for development of a human purpose as being to expand the scope of human consciousness and, to the degree that extra-biological force exceeds human biological bounds, apply that force for benefit of the entire body of life.

With the onset of freedom and power moral responsibility for the effects of choices arises.

Freedom, the awareness of alternatives, and power, the ability to choose among alternatives and act by consciously applying energy to the chosen course of action gives rise to moral responsibility. Another choice could have been made; a different amount of energy could have been applied to the choice taken. The effects of the action taken on the scope of consciousness of the acting individual and others affected by the individual’s action and the effect on the entire body of life, if extra-biological force is used, are the measure of how the action contributes or subtracts from the human purpose.

All behavior can be judged relative to the purpose of expanding the scope of consciousness in the service of life. Imagine a scale that has a zero as a neutral point where an action is neither positive or negative in it's effect, negative 10 is the most negative point on the scale, positive 10 is the most positive point on the scale. Individual actions that effect single individuals would occupy the middle range of the scale from 0 to 3.3 in either a negative or positive direction, group action would range out to the 6.6 range of the scale, and systems would range all the way out to 10 on either side of the scale.

With the advent and then the acceleration of extra-biological power availability to humans previous privacy dynamics should be revised. The dynamic of people, institutions, and systems being able to invade the privacy of others has been, and currently is, a feature of aggregation of social power. When extra-biological power is added to that social dynamic the inequities of the fact that the functional ability to achieve privacy, prevention of unwanted intrusion across a semi-permeable boundary from the outside of that boundary, has increased with the acquisition of power. Now that extra-biological power extends far beyond the scope of the individual privacy needs to be viewed as modifiable in inverse relationship to the possession of power. We should develop systems, political, legal, social, and economic, that implement this principal.

Extra-biological power exceeds the biological boundaries of a person. As extra-biological power increases it becomes less private because it extends further beyond the biological boundary of the originating source.

If we keep the current formula for calculating representation for the U.S. Senate and Congress as presently conceived we have a starting point of 100 senators and 435 congressional representatives. To add bio-representation that covers the rest of the living community that human life is sustained by we need a means of calculating the number of seats that we would have to add to represent them. In the following table of representatives I have taken the biomass of the constituent parts of the food chain, based on Silver Springs Florida river ecosystem data collected by Howard T. Odum, and calculated the number of seats that would be necessary to provide equivalent biomass representation for these non-vioced constituencies.

Given all the problems we face environmentally and socially what do we want the future to look like? What is your vision of a positive future?

Let yourself imagine what we could be and share that vision in the comments section below.