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In this Phase, to start eighteen months from the beginning of the funded period, we suggest that the President and the national congress establish a dedicated banking system. 

This system will support direct loans from the government of the United States of America to individual (human) citizens. 

How the funds would be dispersed would be made clear in the infrastructure’s first deployments.

However, the funds in Phase II would be created using a specific public-private partnership. 

This is unlike Phase I were the total budget is allocated and spent in its two primary tasks, in eighteen months. 

Phase II is to settle parts of the lands now owned by the federal government, we the People, and to use the natural resources in new ways. 

These ways are to be sustainable, economically, environmentally and culturally.

Human biological memory substructure and anticipatory mechanisms support the emergence and persistence of community intelligence.  This is has been true every since humans appeared on the Earth. 

If various theories of natural intelligence are correct, then community intelligence also emerges and persists within animal species.  Connected communities using social network software will enhance community expression, and give humanity a means to resist some of the negative consequnces of commericalism. 

How this new capacity will work is largely theoretical at the moment, but some expectations may be made. 

From Prueitt's Biograph at the beginning of The Education Bridge

The AI paradigm allowed very little appreciation by federal government agencies regarding the means by which biological intelligence is achieved.  Both the industry and the government agencies had dissent, but funding decisions were primarily motivated by business consideration; e.g., how to sale what to whom.  This motivation by purely business processes is observed to be factual, by almost everyone.  The nature of the mechanisms, that allowed the natural distortion caused by human language to be amplified into a process for obtaining money from the federal government, is an issue that we will address in the Bridge. 

The reasons may become clear to the reader.  The issues are like the layers of an onion.

The inquiry about intelligence has been difficult.  It is ranked among the most difficult ever faced by human scholars.  Much of the foundations to the inquiry into intelligence came before we understood the psychology of the brain, or the neurological processes at the cellular, molecular and quantum levels.  And yet much of these older foundations have been held onto, for reasons that must be explained outside of science, as we knew it.  As the last century came to a close, science itself reached the end of certainty, to quote Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine [1].  We have also reached the end of a materialist and reductionistic view of the physical world. 

This is the view that AI is consistent with. 

In our historical circumstance, the materialist entrenchment helped maintain non-sensual principles deep within the common perceptions about the nature of self.  These purposes are mixed and confused with Western philosophical traditions centering on the mind body problem.  The layers of the onion are not even this simple, as funding was also controlled by business processes for purposes that had very little to do with anything other than profits.

 [1] Prigogine, Ilya (1998) The End of Certainty.  The Free Press

How to open the closed system

The language we have developed is not about a complaint regarding funding.  The advance we wish to make is already made, in notational formalism as discussed at reverseTwitter.com.  Professor Stephen Prueitt's published work makes substantial citations into the biological sciences.  His unpublished work makes even deeper citations to G. Edelman’s work on what he called “response degeneracy”. 

This notion is integrated into a "clopen mechanism":  a mechanims to open the set of underlying principles on which a computing system works. 

A natural clopen mechanism is observed to occur across natural organizational scales.  The organization of future computing systems is modeled as consistant with natural law.  The natural mechanisms opens epistemic determinates; e.g., underlyign root causes.  These determinates contextually shift the laws operating in that organizational scale.  Laws become localized for a time period.

A computer requires a fixed set of lawfully defined processes.   The problem for computing is that nature constaintly changes the laws governing system behaviors.  The change we are concerned with is not at the most fundamental level, that of physics, but rather at the level of social or private organization. 

We see this notion as informative to the new stratified theory. 

In summary, response degeneracy occurs whenever a good Newtonian formalism would suggest a route to chaos.  That is the point precisely.  Chaos exists nowhere in nature. 

There are biological routes, such as cell signal pathways and gene expressions, to response degeneracy but following this route is the same, I have argued, as following Zero’s paradox.  One gets caught not understanding the potential illusion of formal language.  This is where the historical distortion of natural science by the AI paradigm is seen to be most harmful.

Private sector - Public sector partnerships under a new model

If we fully understand the effects of the pure notion of “private” sector control over all process; then we may allow a pure private sector to co-exist with a pure public sector.  We may envision, now in 2011, our creating a digital infrastructure for a 100% monitored American public sector infrastructure. 

This public sector infrastructure would be established using a Public Trust instrument specifying that the Trust could not outsource any service. 

For example, all employees must be one of fifty state public trusts, associated with the American Bridge Project, in each federal state. 

All work that is to be done is required to be addressed and completed by a reasonable employee of the State Government. 

A measure of reasonableness would be continually available.  The separation of a pure public sector trust from all aspects of private sector functioning is considered necessary to our task; e.g., of ending the crisis in American education.  Otherwise, the camel’s head is under the edge of the tent. 

This is what we argue, correctly or not.