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OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR Bright Times: The Early Poetry Deep Reality: The YouTube Talks Universal Reality 2.0: Clarifying the New Theory of Everything Understanding Time: What it is and How it Works Relativity Made Easy: The Hidden Principles Unifying Relativity & Quantum Theory: The Revolutionary New Universe Consciousness Explained: It’s True Nature Finally Revealed Realization: Experiencing Reality in a World of Illusion Universal Reality: The New Theory of Everything Reality: A Sweeping New Vision of the Unity of Existence, Physical Reality, Information, Consciousness, Mind and Time THE SMART PLANET A Global AI Meritocracy Edgar L. Owen Copyright © 2018 by Edgar L. Owen All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions First Edition, Version 1.0, August 10, 2018 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Owen, Edgar L. The Smart Planet: A Global AI Meritocracy / Edgar L. Owen – first ed. p. cm. Includes biographical references. ISBN-13: 978-1725047792 (Edgar L. Owen) ISBN-10: 1725047799 (Pbk.) EdgarLOwen.info CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Printed in the United States of America To my secret muse PREFACE This book is the logical outgrowth of my 9 previous books on the nature of reality. It presents a plan based on the fundamental principles of a computational universe, the human computational system, and the interconnected natural and social systems of our planet to achieve the best possible future for planet earth. My hope is that this book serves as a guide to save the planet from what otherwise, based on current projections, will almost certainly be a very dismal future far worse than most people realize. The goal is for humans to come to their collective senses and establish a global meritocratic government to manage the entire planet, including human civilization, on a fully sustainable basis far into the future. In my view this can only be achieved with an AI (artificial intelligence) assisted global meritocracy acting as the intelligent mind of the planet. Only this will enable the entire earth to become a single intelligent organism operating effectively and efficiently to optimize its own well-being. This vision of the future is only the beginning, but it is a fairly detailed viable plan for what could be a much happier, healthier and more prosperous earth, a vision that is sadly lacking in today’s seething mass of conflicting self centered politics and competition for individual power largely at the expense of the well-being of civilization, the planet, and the vast majority of its peoples. Viewed globally the earth is a single living organism composed of us and the biosphere supported by its inorganic systems. However the mind of this organism is fragmented into billions of often conflicting individual human dynamics. The planet completely lacks a single wise and intelligent mind. Thus it’s absolutely necessary to give the earth a single sane intelligent mind so it can begin to act purposefully and intelligently in its own overall self-interest. Due to the privileged status of man this can be only be achieved in the form of an intelligent AI based global government operating apolitically for the optimal good of all humans and the biosphere on which we all depend. This book has been written primarily in an effort to clarify and further develop my own understanding of the problems involved in planning and achieving the necessary global meritocracy but hopefully it will generate an intelligent discussion and begin the process of implementing a global meritocracy. I personally believe this book presents the best, most comprehensive, and practical plan for designing and implementing a benevolent global government that has so far been proposed, but given human instinctual greed and violence whether and to what extent it can actually be implemented remains to be seen. To the extent this book accurately describes the actual future of the earth it’s not something I have created alone. Rather it’s the beauty and logic of the fundamental principles of reality revealing themselves to someone who has hopefully been able to observe and study them without projecting too much of his own personal programming into them. Reality is continuously revealing itself to all of us in all its awesome glory, and I believe anyone willing to observe its principles carefully and open- mindedly will be able to personally confirm the validity of the plan this book presents. Finally let me apologize in advance for the frequent imperfections of my words. I urge the reader to look through the sometimes clumsy and repetitive words to the beauty and wisdom of the vision they point to. Words are imperfect but the future of our planet can be perfect if we all just join in common cause to achieve it. I would like to thank everyone who has helped make this book possible and encouraged me while writing it. Thanks to all of you for putting up with my unusual hermetic life style. And a special thank you to all my wild visitors, including the occasional human, and to the beauty and profundity of nature, which always inspires me with joy and meaning. Thanks to reality itself for continuously revealing itself in all its glory to those who will only look with opened eyes, and thanks most of all to my secret muse. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you all! And finally thanks to all those thinkers, scholars, scientists and visionaries throughout history without whose heroic efforts, genius and cumulative hard work this book could not have been written. The author welcomes all comments and questions and can be contacted at [email protected]. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1 THE PLANETARY ORGANISM .................................................................... 7 PLANETARY SYSTEMS ........................................................................................ 7 PHYSICAL SYSTEMS ............................................................................................. 7 BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ........................................................................................ 9 SOCIAL SYSTEMS ................................................................................................ 10 THE MERITOCRACY- PLANETARY MIND ............................................. 14 OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................ 14 FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE .............................................................................. 15 THE GLOBAL IMPERATIVES ............................................................................ 18 UNIVERSAL POLICIES AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES ................................... 19 ORGANIZATION ................................................................................................... 23 OMNINET – THE NEURAL SYSTEM......................................................... 33 SERVICES AND STRUCTURE ............................................................................ 34 THE UNIVERSAL SIMULATION MODEL ....................................................... 46 THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM ................................................................... 55 DEBUNKING DISINFORMATION .................................................................... 59 THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM ........................................................................... 61 THE MONETARY SYSTEM ................................................................................ 62 PROOF OF CONCEPT .......................................................................................... 68 THE ECONOMIC MODEL ................................................................................... 70 SIMULATING ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING ............................................ 79 ADVANTAGES OVER CURRENT SYSTEMS ................................................... 80 THE THEORY OF VALUE ................................................................................... 83 ECONOMIC VALUE .............................................................................................. 85 CONSEQUENCES FOR MONETARY POLICY ................................................. 87 ECONOMIC BUBBLES ......................................................................................... 89 PRODUCTIVITY ................................................................................................... 90 THE REAL FREE MARKET SYSTEM ........................................................ 92 ADVERTISING ...................................................................................................... 94 CONSUMERISM .................................................................................................... 96 THE SMART INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM ............................................ 97 THE ENERGY SYSTEM ............................................................................. 100 FOSSIL FUELS .................................................................................................... 100 FISSION ENERGY .............................................................................................. 101 FUSION ENERGY ............................................................................................... 102 RENEWABLE ENERGY .................................................................................... 102 PORTABLE ELECTRICITY .............................................................................. 103 ENERGY CONSERVATION .............................................................................