The Moral Society
Glossary

Amoral Only sub-human beings are amoral. To be amoral is to be unaware of the Game of Life at both the unconscious and conscious levels. Amoral beings are only pieces, never players, in the Game of Life. An amoral species is doomed to extinction. Only a moral species can continue to evolve without mutating physically.

Art A process which uses entertainment to expand awareness. This is usually

done symbolically through unconscious stimulation of the mind. Art is similar in its social function to dreaming. Art reflects the awareness of a culture.

Asymptotically A word which refers to a process by which something is always getting closer to something else but never reaches it.

Awareness The property of mind which subsumes the ability to predict and control the total environment—physic cal, biological and psychosocial. The notion of "awareness" also subsumes the notion of "ethical behavior." It is possible for an ethical person to be more aware than a more intelligent person who is less ethical. For example, Spinoza was more ethical but less intelligent than Leibniz. However, only when ethics and intelligence are combined can the person be creative. Creativity is the highest form of awareness. The creation of The Ethics by Spinoza reflected a higher awareness than any of Leibniz' creations in the physical environment. The Ethics gave mankind the first completely rational code of behavior; the highest form of creation is when we create our own behavior instead of merely responding to physical and biological stimuli.

Belief A belief is a state of mind in which someone imagines something to be true. In science there are no beliefs but only probabilities of certain relationships holding under certain circumstances. In science there is never certainty. Only ideologies propound certainties.

Biosphere The envelope of life which surrounds the Earth. It includes all life forms on water, land, or in the air. The biosphere is the precursor to the Noosphere.

Bisexual Refers to a condition in which a person is equally disposed to companionship from either sex. The companionship may be for any purpose and not necessarily solely for sexual gratification. ( See heterosexual and homosexual. )

Bureaucracy Refers to an organization with a built-in mechanism for reducing feedback. Bureaucracy is the evolutionary analogue of specialization and is the major source of entropy within the human race.

Certainty Refers to a mental state in which there exists no doubt about the validity of a cause and effect relationship. Apparently the only thing we can be certain about are our own thoughts, never their causes. This is the case even with thoughts produced by drugs or disease. Error arises only when from our own thoughts we infer a cause and

effect relationship between other events in the total environment. It is unethical to be certain.

Chaos Total disorder. Where nothing has meaning or purpose and all is random. The lowest level of awareness. A patternless nothingness.

Child A child is a transitory being bridging the gap between amorality and morality. Children are always ethical for at least a while. When children become unethical, they may become immoral adults. Immoral adults can only have power by controlling children. Children are pliable and can just as easily become moral or immoral adults. An unethical society turns most of its children into immoral adults. An immoral society turns all of its children into immoral adults. The converse is true for moral and ethical societies. Man has been a child for most of his existence. Homo sapiens seems to be the first species of man with the capacity to produce moral adults. "Child" as here used is an ethical descriptor and not a chronological indicator. "Young child" is used to describe "children" in the more conventional sense.

Communism A socialistic system with a rigid, unscientific, bureaucratic basis derived from Marxist and Leninist ideology.

Conscious Refers to that state of mind in which we are aware of our own awareness. This is opposed to our unconscious. Creativity seems to necessitate a synthesis between the conscious and the unconscious mind.

Connectors Channels through which Information flows from one component of intelligence to another. In our bodies Connectors are represented by nerves.

Conservative Refers to any attitude which is intolerant of change. This characteristic exists on a continuum with adamant opposition to any change at one extreme and complete tolerance for any change at the other. (See liberal. )

Control The deliberate causal formation of a predicted set of events. Control is essential to awareness. Without control an entity is deprived of feedback and becomes incapable of correct prediction.

Cosmic Force The "cosmic force" is a collective term for the joint operation of all laws. The cosmic force has two major components—evolution and entropy. All is an effect of the cosmic force. The cosmic force is random, mindless and infinite in temporal and spatial extension.

Cosmic Moral Society The Moral Society which results from the joining of two or more distinct Moral Societies with independent origins on different planets.

Creation The deliberate organization of energy, matter, life and/or mind into new patterns which increase awareness. The patterns may only be new to the creator; they are not necessarily original. Creation is the joint result of intelligence and ethics. All ethical persons are to some degree creative. Moral persons are extremely creative; they are the ones who create new, coherent models of the universe and engender new societies. Immoral persons can never create; they only destroy.

Critical Mass The point at which the density and quantity of a substance is such that completely new effects take place. For example, a critical mass of plutonium will cause nuclear fission to occur. A critical mass of ethical men is necessary to create an Ethical State. A critical mass of moral men is sufficient to engender an Ethical State and to make evolution irreversible.

Cyborg ( Cybernetic organism ) A man who incorporates a machine as an integral part of his structure. May be pictured as a robot with a man inside it who completely controls the robot and uses it to amplify and simulate his individual powers.

Death The state of maximum entropy for life. It is the state where the awareness produced by life sinks to the level of matter. The preponderance of scientific evidence indicates that for all life forms death represents total extinction of awareness.

Decency A person is decent when he will not deliberately enhance his welfare at the expense of another person's welfare. A decent person is ethical if and only if he interprets "welfare" as synonymous with awareness. A decent person is unethical if and only if he interprets welfare as synonymous with happiness. Decent immoral persons increase entropy by destroying negative feedback for themselves and others. Indecent persons are always immoral and increase entropy by destroying other persons' awareness as well as their own as a means of increasing their own happiness.

Decline ( Decay ) A process by which the total collective awareness continuously decreases, while the entropy increases until the capacity to evolve disappears.

Democracy A system of representative government in which the representatives are chosen in free elections. Elections are assumed to be free if and only if all persons are guaranteed personal freedom. It is assumed, ideologically that freedom is a necessary and sufficient condition for progress.

DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) A complex polymeric organic molecule in the form of a double helix. DNA molecules carry all the information for structuring all known life forms. All the information for structuring the body of a human being is contained in a few thousand DNA molecules. The DNA molecules are the blueprint from which life can be structured. DNA is built on templates of RNA.

Destruction To decrease awareness by increasing entropy. Moral persons never destroy. Immoral persons can only destroy. Children may create or destroy. The more intelligent an immoral person is, the greater will be his capacity to destroy.

Direct Perception The clear realization of a pattern in nature, analogous to the perception of our own thoughts. Illusions of certainty are sometimes mistaken for Direct Perception. Direct Perception is valid only insofar as it enables us to predict and control

Education Any process which directly increases the awareness of those exposed to it.

Effectors That component of intelligence which generates events in the total environment. Within the body, Effectors are represented by our bones, muscles and connective tissues in general.

Emotion A pre-programmed pattern of behavior which is primarily instinctual i.e., genetic, in origin. All emotions, except love, are becoming increasingly destructive, i.e., they serve only to decrease awareness instead of to expand it. Emotions other than love are only useful for survival in a primitive, Darwinian environment when there is little knowledge at hand. Love is always a constructive emotion because it catalyzes the transfer of knowledge.

Entertainment Any process which increases the happiness of some persons without necessarily increasing the awareness of any person. Entertainment which increases awareness is called "Art."

Entropy A condition of chaos as well as a force which increases the chaos in the universe. The entropic force drives mind toward matter and matter toward chaotic energy. Entropy manifests itself in mind by a decreased ability to become aware. In mankind, entropy is measured by the amount of imaginary awareness and by the effectiveness of the mechanisms for limiting feedback. Entropy feeds upon itself and is negatively correlated with awareness.

Ethical Behavior is ethical if and only if it is a strategy in the Game of Life. Therefore, only behavior which increases awareness is ethical. A person is ethical if and only if he is increasing total awareness. In other words, a person is ethical if and only if he plays the Game of Life more often than he plays the Game of Pleasure. To be ethical is to create. Ethical behavior is, therefore, synonymous with creativity; it is the highest form of awareness. Only man has exhibited ethical behavior, because only man has increased his awareness as a species. All other species only increase awareness by mutating into new species. Virtually all human beings are ethical during their childhood. Persons only become unethical by being subjected to the pressures of an unethical society and entropy.

Ethical State An Ethical State is a nation which is structured to increase total awareness. A society is ethical when most of its members are ethical. A society can only remain ethical if its leaders are moral men. A society with moral leadership and an ethical structure has irreversible awareness.

Ethics Rules of optimal behavior. It may be shown logically that behavior is optimal if and only if it is a strategy in the Game of Life. The rules of the Game of Life are, therefore, the Ethics of Life and are the only true ethics. All other forms of behavior are unethical or trivial.

Eugenics A process by which controlled reproduction is used to improve the quality of a species. (See selective and uniform birth control. )

Evil Refers to any action or thing which decreases awareness.

Evolution (See entropy) A condition of awareness as well as a force which drives everything in the universe toward greater awareness and complexity. Evolution is the opposite of entropy. The evolutionary force drives matter toward mind and mind toward ever greater awareness. A level of evolution is measured by the degree of awareness. The greater the awareness of a being the higher it is on the evolutionary scale. Evolution is a law of nature and not a coherent plan. Evolution has a direction of ever greater awareness and certain properties; however, it is basically a random process because it always coexists with entropy. The higher a being is on the evolutionary scale the less subject it is to entropy. Therefore evolution catalyzes itself.

Extended Family A family which includes persons not our parents, children, spouse or siblings. The extended family evolves from the immediate family to the clan, to the tribe, to the nation, to the empire, to the Ethical State, to the Moral Society. (See family)

Faith The hope that our desires will be fulfilled without knowing precisely how this will happen.

Family A group of beings tied together by mutual love. (See immediate and extended family)

Fanning Out Part of the process of evolution by which members of a phylum speciate by acquiring different specialties until they can no longer interbreed and have increasingly less in common.

Feedback Refers to the perception of the consequences of our actions. Positive feedback refers to perception of successes, i.e., when the total environment was in fact predicted and controlled. Negative feedback refers to perception of our mistakes, i.e. to attempts at prediction and control which failed.

Freedom Refers to a state in which we can do and say as we please so long as we do not in the process interfere with the right of another person to do and say as he pleases. When there is a conflict, a compromise is reached which maximizes the freedom for both persons.

Game A set of rules of how to behave in order to win a specified stake. The stake may be symbolic or tangible. A game has no purpose beyond itself. All men play games either consciously or unconsciously. Every game is either a variation on the Game of Life or a variation on the Game of Pleasure. For any given person, the same game may be a variation on the Game of Life at one time and a variation on the Game of Pleasure at another time.

Game of Life A game in which the stakes are ever-expanding awareness. The Game of Life is the pivotal point between good and evil, life and death. The Game of Life is the basis of all evolution. To play the Game of Life is to increase awareness. To deliberately play the Game of Life is to increase awareness as best we can for the rest of our life.

Game of Pleasure A game which serves only to increase happiness, never awareness. Persons who play the Game of Pleasure are the major source of entropy for the human race. Players of the Game of Pleasure make themselves and others increasingly unethical until they become immoral.

Generalist (See specialist) A generalist is a person who is aware of the total environment in approximately equal degrees. He has tried to learn in approximately equal amounts all of human knowledge. He attempts to maintain sphericity by not developing great depth in one area while he is still ignorant of another area. It is possible for a generalist to have more depth in every area than a specialist.

Genotype The genetic make-up of an organism which interacts with the external environment to produce the overt phenotype.

Good Refers to any action or thing which increases awareness.

Great That is great which significantly expands the awareness of others. This applies to art, science or men. Greatness implies extremely important social morality.

Happiness The state of mind which results from being in the process of fulfilling our desires. The intensity of happiness is directly proportional to the strength of our desires and the rate at which we fulfill them. In the absence of desire there is neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Hedonism A sense of values which gives the highest value to pleasure and happiness. Hedonism represents the pursuit of happiness to the exclusion of awareness. A hedonist seeks to maximize his happiness above all else. The pursuit of happiness without awareness leads only to death.

Heritability A statistical notion based on the theory of analysis of variance. It is expressed by a number between zero and one A heritability of zero indicates that the phenotypic differences between statistically differentiable groups are not due to genotypic differences, but are detemmined solely by the environment of the organism. A heritability of one indicates that the environmental differences between the groups in question produce no significant differences with respect to a specified trait; all differences concerning

the trait are assumed to be due to genetic differences.

Heterosexual Refers to a condition in which a person prefers the companionship of the opposite sex. This does not preclude the desire for companionship or sexual gratification from the same sex. Most persons appear to be heterosexual. Homosexuals and bisexuals, as a group, appear to be more deficient in social morality than heterosexuals. There are, of course, many individual exceptions.

Homo moralensis Moral man. The latest development in Homo sapiens represented by men who deliberately play the Game of Life.

Homo progressives man. A term used by Teilhard de Chardin to connote men who perceive and value human progress and have faith in mankind's future.

Homo sapiens The species of man which has been dominant for about 50,000 years. Cro-Magnon was a Homo sapiens, Neanderthal was not although they could probably interbreed, as can lions and tigers.

Homosexual Refers to a condition in which a person prefers the company of his own sex. Homosexuality is a statistical concept which is difficult to assess. It can only be inferred by overt behavior which leads persons voluntarily to choose the company of their own sex. A person who experiences sexual gratification with persons of his own sex is not necessarily homosexual, but may be bisexual or heterosexual.

Ideology An ideology is an interdependent set of ideological beliefs. An ideological belief is a belief in a cause and effect relationship which is not based on scientific evidence. All superstitions are ideological beliefs. All religions are ideologies. Marxism and most of what is caned "social science" are ideologies.

Imaginary Awareness Refers to an illusion of awareness which has no basis in reality. It can occur by imagining a model of cause and effect relationships which cannot be substantiated scientifically. Most imaginary awareness results from accepting the imagined model of someone else as true when it is in fact false. Skepticism is the best defense against imaginary awareness. Systematic, creative skepticism is the basis of scientific method.

Imagination That component of intelligence which generates Information independent of the Sensors. Imagined events are used to complete the pattern of sensed events so that there are no inconsistencies. The Effectors test the validity of the completed pattern by generating new events until all sensed events are consistent. This is how awareness grows. Imagination has never been localized as have the other components of intelligence. It seems to be associated with the cortex in some way. The more ethical a person is, the more imaginative he seems to be. It may be that Imagination is produced in part by the moral field of the Cosmic Moral Society and that receptivity to this field depends on ethics.

Immediate Family A family limited to our parents, children, spouse and siblings. (See family)

Immoral A person is immoral if and only if he deliberately declines the challenge of the Game of Life and consciously chooses to play the Game of Pleasure. An immoral person only plays the Game of Pleasure. Persons become immoral by becoming increasingly unethical until all their actions are strategies in the Game of Pleasure. An immoral person never plays the Game of Life again; he has irreversible entropy. Persons are made immoral by an unethical society. Only highly intelligent persons can be immoral. Most unethical persons are children not immoral adults.

Immoral Community The Immoral Community is that group of persons who seek power without awareness. When these persons are decent they seek to make others happy. When they are indecent, they seek only to make themselves happy. The Immoral Community is represented by the "Establishment" in every country. It consists of politicians, priests, Marxists, some social "scientists," and others. The Immoral Community serves only to increase the total entropy of the human race.

Immoral Society An immoral society is a society in which all adults are immoral and all are made unethical. An immoral society has irreversible entropy. Russia is probably becoming an immoral society. The U.S. is on the verge of becoming an unethical society.

Important Refers to any activity which significantly affects awareness either positively or negatively.

Industry A collective term for any organization which serves to produce any goods and services other than entertainment and education.

Information The symbolic representation of events and their relationships. Information is an essential component in the structure of intelligence. An entity devoid of all Information would have no intelligence. All the Information in our bodies, except instinct, is produced by the Sensors or by the Imagination.

Intelligence The ability to predict and control the total environment—physical, biological and psychosocial. Intelligence is a structure with discrete components, namely, Will, Memory, Logic, Imagination, Sensors, Effectors, Connectors and Information. Each of the components is essential to intelligence. All the components, except for Information, seem to have a largely hereditary basis.

Investigator Any person who systematically seeks new knowledge on any subject(s).

Joining Part of the process of evolution by which entities which have reached a threshold of awareness organize themselves into a more complex entity such that the new collective awareness is greater than the sum of the parts. ( e.g., Atoms represent a joining of elementary particles, molecules represent a joining of atoms; cells represent a joining of molecules; man represents a joining of cells, the Moral Society represents a joining of man.)

Joy A condition of extreme happiness. Joy is happiness without anxiety, it is a happiness which we have no fear of ever losing. It seems that only the deliberate expansion of awareness for ourselves and others produces joy.

Knowledge A critical mass of information which creates direct perception where before none existed. Our knowledge is a function of our innate intelligence and our environment. The geometry of our knowledge (i.e., a spherical or an ellipsoidal surface) is dependent on ethics. Information becomes knowledge only when it is a component of intelligence. Knowledge subsumes creativity.

Leftist Refers to a belief that behavior is determined primarily by environment and not heredity. This belief exists on a continuum. The extreme leftist believes that heredity plays no role in shaping behavior and that environment is all important. The extreme rightist believes the opposite. (See rightist)

Liberal Refers to any attitude which is tolerant of change. This characteristic exists on a continuum with the extreme conservative at one extreme and the extreme liberal at the other. (See conservative)

Life That effect of matter which produces an awareness of non-self and causes awareness to expand and grow until it produces awareness of awareness. At this time mind begins to develop rapidly until it ceases to be an effect of life and becomes an effect of itself. ( See mind. )

Logic That component of intelligence which determines when different quanta of information and/or knowledge are inconsistent. Logic is a filter which tells the Will which events are inconsistent in order that new events may be generated until all events are consistent. All events are consistent if and only if a person is totally aware. Therefore, all events are never consistent. A person who sees inconsistent events as consistent is either psychotic, ideological or both. Logic appears to be a function of parts of the cortex.

Love A state of mind where the welfare of another person is sufficiently important to us that we are willing to sacrifice some of our welfare in order to enhance his. Love is "natural" when "welfare" is synonymous with "awareness." Love is "perverse" when "welfare" is synonymous with "happiness."

LTA ( Level of Total Awareness ) A condition of total awareness which may be estimated by statistically sampling a person's knowledge in each dimension of noospace and by testing his ability to integrate the knowledge to produce coherent, multi-disciplinary models. Tests such as the Army General Technical and the Graduate Record Examination are crude attempts to develop scientific LTA tests. The latter tests are essential to the creation of an Ethical State. The validity of an LTA test is measured by how well it predicts a person's current ability to predict and control his total environment.

Machine A manufactured device which converts one form of energy into another. Language, clothing, computers, houses, tools, and organizations are examples of machines. The machine is the basis of human evolution. Since the advent of Homo sapiens human evolution has depended almost entirely on the development of ever better machines.

Mankind ( Man, humanity, the human race, etc. ) The family of ethical beings, which began about four million years ago. It is represented by Homo sapiens today. It may become Homo moralensis in the future.

Memory That component of intelligence which stores Information in addressable units. The address is determined in part by the nature of the information and its relationship to other information. In our own bodies Memory is a process by which molecules are altered in our brain by sensed or imagined Information.

Metazoa Multi-cellular animals as opposed to Protozoa, which are unicellular. Sponges, insects, fish and man are all metazoa.

Military A collective term for any organization which serves to impose the will of any authority by force.

Mind That effect of life which is aware in general and aware of self in particular. The evolution of mind goes from 1) awareness of self to 2) awareness of others to 3) awareness of awareness (the beginning of ethical behavior) to 4) awareness of ethics (the beginning of morality ) . There is no sharp distinction between matter and life or energy and matter, therefore the concept of mind may extend back through the evolutionary scale to chaotic energy, with matter representing awareness of self because it maintains integrity of form. Therefore, mind while certainly an effect of life may also be an effect of matter. Our minds and the perceptions therein are the only thing about which we can be certain.

Minimax Strategy A plan for minimizing our risks by obtaining the best of the worst in a game. In the Game of Life the worst is entropy, therefore, the minimax strategy is also the uniformly optimal strategy which maximizes our awareness while minimizing our entropy. In the Game of Pleasure the worst is unhappiness. The best of the worst is extinction. Death is, therefore, the minimax strategy in the Game of Pleasure. Following the rules of the Game of Life is a uniformly optimal strategy in both the Game of Life and the Game of Pleasure. (See uniformly optimal.)

Moral A person is moral if and only if he deliberately and consciously plays the Game of Life. A moral person never plays the Game of Pleasure again after becoming moral. Moral persons always increase total awareness. Morality is the highest form of ethical behavior. Moral persons are, in general, highly creative; they never destroy. (See personal and social morality)

Moral Community The Moral Community is that group of persons who are primarily concerned with expanding awareness. The Moral Community consists of artists, scientists and technologists. A technologist is anyone concerned with producing goods and services which increase awareness. Physicians, farmers, teachers, laborers and mechanics are all examples of technologists. The Moral Community represents the true workers of the world who are exploited by the Immoral Community.

Music The purest art. It is devoid of conscious meaning and operates entirely at the unconscious level to communicate the awareness of a culture.

Nature-Nurture Problem The problem of determining whether differences between groups or individuals are due to heredity ( nature ) or environment ( nurture ) .

Noospace The abstract space of mind where each dimension represents an orthogonal area of knowledge. For convenience, noospace may be seen in three dimensions—the physical, biological, and psychosocial. In reality, noospace probably has infinitely many orthogonal dimensions. Only by relating each dimension of noospace to all other dimensions can awareness be maximized. Knowledge can be specialized, but awareness is total.

Noosphere [<Gr. noos mind, and sphaira, a body whose surface always has all its points equidistant from a single point], the envelope of collective human mind which surrounds the Earth. A word first used by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe some aspects of the Moral Society. ( See biosphere. )

Optimal Refers to the extremal of a desired effect. Something is optimal when it is the best and there is nothing better. Optimality is not necessarily a unique property. In a game there may be many optimal strategies. When a person behaves optimally it means that he has done the best he could. It does not mean that someone else might not have done better.

Organization A group of persons tied together by a set of common objectives and rules. All organizations have the propensity for being fumed into bureaucracies if they are deprived of feedback. All bureaucracies are organizations, but not all organizations are bureaucracies.

Orthogonal At right angles. When events or actions are orthogonal, then each can occur without necessarily affecting the other. However, orthogonal events are not necessarily independent.

Parasite ( parasitical human being ) Any entity which produces pollution and consumes resources without in any way expanding awareness.

Perception That property of mind which integrates sensed information into a meaningful whole so that knowledge results.

Personal Morality Refers to the deliberate desire to increase one's own personal awareness. Personal morality must coexist with social morality or it will atrophy. Without social morality personal morality may become perverted into a desire solely for personal power. All moral persons have both components of morality, but not necessarily m equal amounts.

Personal Power Control over the environment used solely as a means of creating personal security.

Perverse Refers to any action which seeks to increase happiness in such a way that awareness is not increased. A pervert is any person who systematically increases his own happiness without increasing anyone's awareness, including his own.

Phenotype The external appearance of an organism in terms of its morphology and overt behavior. (See genotype.)

Phylum A group of life forms characterized by unique properties which make them distinct from all other life forms. E.g., arthropods are characterized by jointed legs and a chitinous exoskeleton, chordates by the notochord; and ethical beings, including man, by awareness of their own awareness.

Power The ability to control the environment.

Prediction Imagining an event correctly before it is directly perceived. Prediction is essential to awareness. Without the ability to predict an entity could not see the patterns which tie its perceptions together; it would have neither a past nor a future but would exist only in the present in a state of continuous destruction.

Probability Refers to the degree of confidence that a person has that a cause and effect relationship is true. Zero probability implies that the person is certain that the relationship is false. A probability of one implies that the person is certain that the relationship is true. An ethical person always places a probability greater than zero, but less than one on the validity of all cause and effect relationships outside The progress of the human race is intotal awareness within the universe.

Progress The process of ever-expanding of the existence of his own thoughts, dictated by man's increasing ability to predict and control the total environment. This progress is least evident in the psychosocial environment, but even here it occurs. Only immorality can stop human progress.

Protagonist When used without adjectives and capitalized, "Protagonist" refers to a person who is a deliberate player of the Game of Life. A Protagonist plays a leading part in doing the best he can to maximize total awareness. Those who will create an Ethical State are all Protagonists.

Racism A belief that the behavior of a person can be inferred from the a priori expected behavioral characteristics of the racial group to which the person belongs. Racism neglects to allow for widespread individual differences within races. Science indicates that there is a wide overlap in the behavior of all races.

Random Refers to any process whose outcome cannot be predicted with certainty. Any process of which we have incomplete information is random. Nature can only be exactly predicted when we possess all knowledge, i.e., when we are totally aware of everything. For this reason, nature will always seem random to any finite being. However, the accuracy and precision of our predictions and control can increase asymptotically toward perfection. The randomness is within ourselves, not necessarily within the external universe. The cosmic force will always seem random to any finite being because entropy and evolution coexist in infinite extension and we can never have complete knowledge of either process.

Reality That which we can 1) predict and control or 2) know that we can neither predict nor control. All perception is real but not our beliefs about the causes of the perceptions. Only true awareness is real. Only awareness that passes the test of prediction and control is true awareness.

Relevant Anything which expands total awareness is relevant. That which best serves to integrate and expand the totality of knowledge is the most relevant. Relevance implies something which is both important and ethical.

Religion An ideology which seeks to explain everything in the universe and stresses ideological beliefs about the soul. (See soul and ideology)

Revolt Against Reason A phenomenon which is sweeping all the democracies. It is characterized by a rejection of scientific method and an uncritical acceptance of ideology. It seeks to destroy the structure of society, but has no specific alternative to the structure. Traditionally the Revolt Against Reason was a rightist movement which began with Rousseau and culminated in Hitler. The "Old Left" was not part of the Revolt Against Reason; the "New Left" is.

Rightist Refers to a belief that human behavior is determined more by heredity than by environment. The characteristic exists on a continuum with the extreme rightist believing that environment has no effect whatsoever on behavior. The extreme leftist believes that all behavior is determined entirely by heredity. (See leftist)

Robot A machine which is self-improving (i.e., self organizing) and can predict and control its environment.

RNA ( ribonucleic acid ) A complex, single-stranded, polymeric, organic molecule. RNA is a constituent of all living cells. It has the capacity to store information. DNA can be built on templates of RNA. RNA can carry information between DNA molecules.

Science A method for increasing awareness which is based on the principle that ad hypotheses and theories are to be held in doubt until proven true by controlled experimentation. Hypotheses and theories are held to be tentatively true only so long as they make correct predictions. Those hypotheses and theories which make the most accurate and consistently correct predictions are the "truest." In science only that which works is true.

Scientific Illiterate A person who possesses little or no scientific knowledge. This is a relative term since almost everyone has some scientific knowledge. In general, persons who have no knowledge of systematic biology, physical science, or mathematics are scientific illiterates.

Security A state of mind in which a person believes he has or can readily obtain all he thinks he needs and has no fear of losing what he already has.

Selective Birth Control A system of eugenics whereby members of a species with desirable characteristics are encouraged to reproduce as many offspring as possible. Members with undesirable characteristics are discouraged from producing any offspring. In general, the number of offspring produced by any member is directly proportional to his desirable characteristics and inversely proportional to his undesirable characteristics. This technique assumes that there are genetic differences in all important characteristics between different members of the species. The technique is used in such a way that the total population is in proper balance with available resources.

Selfless Refers to a mental state in which personal security and happiness are seen as secondary to a higher purpose. The only purpose which seems to have the potential for producing selflessness is the pursuit of total awareness as an end in itself.

Sexism An ideology analogous to racism, which ascribes behavioral characteristics to a person solely on the basis of his sex. The scientific evidence implies that although the genetic potential for various types of behavior may not be identically distributed in each sex, the full gamut of human behavior, other than the reproductive functions, probably exists within each sex. The best way to avoid both racism and sexism is to accept each person solely on the basis of his individual merit and to avoid a priori judgments.

Sensors That component of intelligence through which some of the events in the total environment are represented symbolically by Infommation which is stored in the Memory. In the body the Sensors are visual auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic, etc.

Socialism A socio-political system in which every person is held responsible for the welfare of every other person. The Ethical State is a socialistic system, but it does not have an ideological basis as do most of the existing systems which today call themselves "socialistic." In all current socialistic systems, "welfare" is considered synonymous with "happiness." In the Ethical State, "welfare" is synonymous with "awareness."

Social Morality Refers to the deliberate desire to increase the awareness of others. Social morality must co-exist with personal morality or it will become perverted into immoral decency, whereby the person seeks to increase solely the happiness of others. All moral persons have both components of morality, though not necessarily to the same degree.

Soul The notion of "soul" is identical to that of "mind" except that the soul is tied to supernatural cause and effect relationships. The soul, unlike the mind, is usually assumed to be immortal. Our mind insofar as it is an effect of our body almost certainly dies with our body. The notions of "soul" which are not identical to "mind" are ideologically based and have no scientific basis.

Specialist A specialist is a person who has developed depth of knowledge in one area at the cost of being ignorant in other areas. The specialist differs from the generalist not because of what he knows but because of what he does not know. It is possible for a specialist to be more intelligent and have more knowledge in every area than a generalist. When a generalist and a specialist are of comparable intelligence the generalist is always more aware. It is possible for a generalist to be more aware than a specialist even when the latter is much more intelligent than the former. If a generalist is represented by a sphere and a specialist by an ellipsoid, then their total knowledge, which is a product of their intelligence, is represented by their surface area. Their awareness is a product of both their intelligence and their ethics and is represented by their volume. A sphere has maximum volume for a given surface area.

Speciation Refers to the process by which a new generalized phylum starting with a single species fans out into the biosphere by having succeeding generations adapt until they can fit into one and only one ecological niche. Each adaptation represents a new species which is forever separated from its former brothers.

Statistically-Similar Intuitively, this concept refers to a condition in which two or more entities have many measurable characteristics in common and do not differ radically in any characteristics. Persons would belong to a statistically similar group if, for example, they had a common age, I.Q., health, ethnic background, education, income, etc. For a rigorous treatment of this notion see "Mahalonobis Distance Function," "Fisher Likeness Coefficient" and other techniques for statistical taxonomy in C. R. Rao's Advanced Statistical Methods in Biometric Research; also see Kendall and Stuart The Advanced Theory of Statistics Vol. 3.

Tachyons Hypothesized subatomic particles which always travel at speeds in excess of the speed of light. Tachyons accelerate by losing energy until they are traveling at infinite speeds when they have zero energy. Although the existence of tachyons is theoretically feasible they have not as yet been experimentally detected. However, many theoretically predicted subatomic particles were conjectured long before they were detected, e.g., mesons, positrons, and neutrinos. The general rule seems to be that any particle which

theoretically fits into the over-as structure of matter will exist. Tachyons were originally postulated by Gerald Feinberg.

TAP ( Total Awareness Potential ) The potential that any person has for increasing his total awareness. Insofar as an LTA test can give a good indication of a person's total awareness, the validity of a TAP test is indicated by the test's ability to predict future LTA from the persons current health, age LTA and general condition. The closest thing to a TAP test is the so-called "I.Q. test." The l.Q. test is deficient in that it does not evaluate Will and Imagination. For this reason it can only predict gross inability to cope with the total environment. This is the case when a person is seriously deficient in Logic or Memory. A combination of good Logic and Memory measured together with measures of Imagination and Will should lead to valid TAP tests.

Technology A scientific process for building, operating and/or designing machines, the application of science for control of the environment.

Total Environment Total environment includes Al that can be perceived or conceived. The total environment may be divided for convenience into 1) the physical which includes an of matter and energy; 2) the biological which includes all life forms including Man; and 3) the psychosocial which includes all activities of the mind. These divisions are only a convenience which should vanish in time. Ultimately, it should be shown that matter, life and mind are all interrelated phenomena produced by a single cosmic force. In recent years, the apparent discontinuities between life and matter have been disappearing. Eventually all psychosocial phenomena will be understood in the same manner.

Trivial Refers to activity which neither increases nor decreases awareness. Trivial activity will increase entropy. In the long run, trivial activity may decrease awareness indirectly by increasing entropy to the point where awareness is no longer possible.

Truth A cause and effect relationship is true if and only if it enables one to predict and control the environment. All models of cause and effect relationships involve error. Therefore, truth is a goal which is approached asymptotically as total awareness grows. Whoever claims to have found truth, speaks falsely; whoever pursues truth, win get ever closer to it. Only an entity who is totally aware knows truth. Even apparently tautological statements may involve semantic errors.

Unconscious Refers to that state of mind in which we are aware, but we are not aware of our own awareness. The Imagination seems to work primarily at the unconscious level (See conscious. )

Unethical Behavior is unethical if and only if it decreases awareness. All unethical behavior is a strategy in the Game of Pleasure. A person is unethical when he plays the Game of Pleasure more often than he plays the Game of Life. Unethical behavior always increases entropy.

Unethical Society A society is unethical when most of its members are unethical and it is structured to decrease awareness. Every nation is an unethical society or an incipient unethical society. Societies become unethical through bureaucracy, ideology and immoral leadership

Uniform Birth Control A system of eugenics by which the quality of a species is increased by deliberately keeping the population down to a level where all members of the species are assured adequate resources. This is done by limiting the number of offspring each member can produce uniformly for all members. This technique is based on the assumption that there are no important differences in genetic structure between any members of the species.

Uniformly Optimal Strategy A uniformly optimal strategy is a plan for minimizing our risks while simultaneously maximizing expected gains. Following the rules of the Game of Life is a uniformly optimal strategy in both the Game of Pleasure and the Game of Life. (See minimax)

Will That component of intelligence which directs the flow of Information to the other components. Will is a vector quantity with a direction and a magnitude. The direction determines what type of knowledge will be acquired; the magnitude determines the resolve to acquire the knowledge. The Imagination and the Effectors generate events which provide a critical mass of Information until knowledge exists. Under the direction of the Will all the components of intelligence operate to expand awareness continuously. Will in our bodies appears to be an effect of cells in the depths of the brain and is unrelated to the cortex. The Will operates at both the conscious and unconscious levels.

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