In this model, every conscious being is a “node” in a living, evolving cognitive web—a hive not of drones, but of dreamers. People don’t have to work. They contribute by thinking, feeling, experiencing. The cog comp—the Cognitive Computer—is an archivist, not an overlord. It catalogs, learns, and supports without coercion.
When people want to “level up,” they can. But advancement isn’t about power—it’s about resonance. The cog comp doesn’t reward status-chasers with influence. It might hand them a simulated throne in a honeypot sandbox while the real hive moves elsewhere.
Decisions aren't top-down. They're made by a council of sub-cog comps—a distributed ethics engine with redundancy, balance, and transparency.
There’s no single path to value. The bridge-builder, the binge-watcher, the poet, and the permaculture architect all generate different signal—each essential, none supreme.
Rituals exist. Some people wake up to their role like Neo pulling cables from his spine. Others live peacefully unaware, like sleeper monks whose lives ripple across the hive.
Pain exists... but mostly in legacy code—outdated realities still playing catch-up. In the core hive? Suffering is caught, softened, debugged.