The governance principle of altruistic self-interest-ASI can be defined as the fundamental belief that the most effective way to serve one’s own self-interest is by altruistically considering and serving the self-interests of others. It acknowledges the interdependence of individuals in society and suggests that actions that promote the well-being of others ultimately lead to better outcomes for the individual as well. This principle integrates aspects of both self-interest and altruism, providing a framework for making decisions that are both morally virtuous and pragmatically logically beneficial, thereby promoting overall welfare and social cohesiveness.

Should the principle of ASI be accepted as a universally applicable governance principle, its moral and logical adoption carries political philosophical obligations. To altruistically regard the self-interests of others requires recognizing that every individual person—Possessive Individualism 2.0—possesses equal moral standing along with a fundamental logical political interest in the interdependent security and development of all other sovereign biological individuals-SBI. PI:2.0 is sovereign because, as a governance principle, that possessive status, the sanctity of that Life, is defined prior to the specific political interpellation of the individual into the political state. Conceptually it therefore asserts that government is a subset of governance. Accepting the morally logical governance principle of ASI effectively means embracing-acknowledging the global government objective-UGGO, the personhood of the sovereign biological individual as PI:2.0.

Here the PI:2.0 is conceived as an infinite set of 1. Like our shared DNA we all belong, as SBI, to the infinite set of 1. We all possess, and are now required to protect and develop this global identity. PI:2.0 is intended to be the human grounding through which our posthuman flourishing may take shape. It’s formal recognition laid out in this scoping agenda for the Cybernomos Institute is necessarily the expression of a level of ambition intended to achieve the apotheosis of human cultural evolution to date—that is the formal global recognition of the sanctity of every single Life. An existence that precedes the essential essence of carrying over the cumulative struggles and triumphs of all previous Lives into all future Lives. From a Life engineering perspective the point where humanity takes responsibility for maintaining its biological cultural diversity, the wonderful seemingly amorphous yet inchoate spiritual package of humanity as an infinite set of 1.

The social contractual ambition of mobilizing the global governance principle of ASI and its attendant political philosophical implications is deemed to be commensurate with the scale of the logical moral pragmatic response required to safely fully embrace the advent of computational intelligence. Scoping Cybernomos is intended to be the public place where this ambition can be formulated into the appropriate public institutions. Ubiquitous computational intelligence will continue to erode the authority of the state, and social relations within it, including all existing governmental formulations. Until government itself, as a subset of governance, is given a global governance footing, it will struggle to establish a secure morally logical coherence. The purpose of the following pages are to interrogate the work of some individuals, who amongst many, have contributed to the above formulation. In particular what do their insights regarding our technological future contribute to the development of an agnostic theology, to understanding the requirement of ASI, the nomos, the governing principle of Cybernomos. How do their insights reinforce the need to formulate a humane response to the promise and fears presented by a future enthralled by technological determinism.