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This article describes an Integrated Decision Making Environment modeled after the human anatomy and various naturally occurring phenomena and processes, like swarming, and the human neural decision making process. Observing the natural... more

This article describes an Integrated Decision Making Environment modeled after the human anatomy and various naturally occurring phenomena and processes, like swarming, and the human neural decision making process. Observing the natural fractals related to decision making, which can be clearly seen in bee swarms, ant colonies and human neurons, together with the organic capabilities of storing and distributing information using the DNA and the overall anatomy of the human body, we want to define a coherent organic Decision Making Environment custom-tailored for the human society by nature itself. In order to properly replicate the organic operating system used by the human body to govern itself we must first start looking at how data is distributed between cells and stored inside the DNA. In order to reproduce this kind of distributed and decentralized database we decided to use Blockchain technology as it shares a lot of the key properties with human DNA.

Abstract: The concept of անձնիշխանութիւն (self-governance) in Late Medieval Armenian philosophical thought engages with the questions of what it means to be fully human. Yovhan Orotnec‘i’s philosophy on the freedom of the human will... more

Abstract: The concept of անձնիշխանութիւն (self-governance) in Late Medieval Armenian philosophical thought engages with the questions of what it means to be fully human. Yovhan Orotnec‘i’s philosophy on the freedom of the human will contextualizes the martyrdom account of T‘amar Mokac‘i found in Grigor Xlatec‘i’s Yaysmawurk‘. In that account, the characters of T‘amar and P‘ašaxat‘un present a contrast between the exercise of one’s freedom to control the self against the use of freedom and authority to control another. For the author, T‘amar fully exemplifies what it means to be անձնիշխան, possessing the full ability to bridge human rationality and responsibility in her circumstances as displayed in her words, actions, and decisions. The idea that accumulation of one’s prior free choices and the pattern that emerges from those choices shape one’s character and provide direction for future actions is observed in T‘amar’s courage and in P‘ašaxat‘un’s judgement.

As normal adult human agents we have a remarkable trio of capacities. First, we are capable of acting over time in ways that involve important forms of intentional cross-temporal organization and coordination. Second, we are capable of... more

As normal adult human agents we have a remarkable trio of capacities. First, we are capable of acting over time in ways that involve important forms of intentional cross-temporal organization and coordination. Second, we are capable of acting together with others in ways that go significantly beyond standard forms of strategic interaction. Third, we are capable of self-governance. A theory of human agency should include an understanding of these capacities for temporally extended, for shared, and for self-governed intentional agency. In each case we have interrelated concerns that are conceptual, metaphysical, and normative. The response to these concerns is to seek to understand these three capacities as grounded in a common, core capacity for planning agency. This is the conjecture of the fecundity of planning agency.