The Societal Being

(a privately funded research project)

Basic Theory of Societal Being

A societal being is a pair of independent systems where a high-level system (the societal brain) is completely dependent on the low-level system (the societal body) while the low-level system has no knowledge about the high-level system (the societal brain).

A human being is a societal being. In a human being, the high-level system is the brain. The low-level system is the complicated physical-chemical-biological system or the human body.

A society is also a societal being. In a society, the high-level system is the Internet. The low-level system is the community of individual human beings. It is my vision that the Internet is becoming the societal brain for our society.

Origin of the Universe

The entire world in the time domain and the space domain is continuous. In the space domain, the world is composed of materials ranging from small basic particles like quarks to the ever-expanding galaxies. The physicists are very close to discovering the complete list of basic particles. I believe in the near future the physicists will prove that the entire world is originated from one particle (I call it the “starton”). Its mass will be determined to be equal to the entire mass of the world while it occupies no space. In other words, in the space domain, the world is continuous from the starton to quarks, to atoms, to molecules, to materials, to cells, and to the complex living organisms like us. Everything is originated from the same starton.

In the time domain, the world is continuous and developmental. Just like what I have suggested that the entire world is originated from starton in the space domain, time has a beginning at which the starton was originated. Over the period since the starton was originated, the starton in the time domain has developed continuously to quarks, to atoms, to molecules, to cells, to plants, to animals, and to human beings.

Now the question is whether human beings are the ultimate development of the world. I believe that human beings are the ultimate living organisms. But the format for human beings to be the ultimate living organisms will continue to develop. The eventually developed format for human beings will act as one societal being. The societal being will have the knowledge of the entire world in the time and space domains. In other words, the societal being will have discovered the starton and have the detailed knowledge of the entire universe as well.

In an analogy, a person today can drive a car around the earth along the well-developed highway systems. In the future, the societal being could drive the earth around the universe along appropriate orbits. In other words, the societal being will be able to create an environment suitable for the human beings anywhere in the universe.

Wave

It seems that almost every thing is the world can change in cycles: the water waves in lakes or oceans, the swings of tree branches, the ups and downs of the stock market. I have seen somewhere that wave is one of the basic forms in the world.

Symmetry

Another basic form for the world is symmetry. When you look at a growing tree, a grown person, or moving pebbles; you can easily identify the symmetry among them.