Imagine you are trying to build a city. You need to build the system that allows the city to evolve, whether that is by a planning committee or a guild of engineers. Whichever approach you take to create a system that scales, you will need intelligent people. Intelligence is one of the bottlenecks in starting a new city. You want intelligent people to manage your water and sewage systems. You want intelligent people to measure and combat pollution. You want intelligent people to maintain a political or legal system that is fair. You want intelligent people to maintain a system that can protect itself. This is why people want to move to good neighborhoods. Good neighborhoods are a heuristic that the governing system is competently working in most of these domains. Everything feeds on itself. A low pollution level in water leads to better health outcomes, which can potentially lead to more intelligent citizens (even from the moment they are born). A fair justice system leads to well-beha...
Most religions can be seen as a social technology that enable cooperation, ultimately enabling a society to be able to better preserve and defend itself. First, we will analyze Christianity as a social technology that enables a more efficient economy. Second, we will make an association between deontological ethics and autonomic systems, and attempt to illustrate consequentialism as an awareness of autonomic functions. Third, we will attempt to create a comprehensive philosophy that contains both the deontological ethics of religious thinking and the consequentialism of scientific thinking, ultimately to present a modern social technology that could be a replacement for both types of thinking. Christianity is pushing forward the image of a new type of person: Jesus Christ. What are the characteristics of Jesus that sets him apart from the old image? It is the belief that the dominant organizing force of a society can be compassion instead of fear (and the ability to instill it). From t...