What is Concept?
Something wicked slouches toward Terra. Storm clouds mumble forgotten spells. A new species sputters to life in the data centers, newborn and fearsome. Robber barons loot the commons, laying waste to norms and decorum. A Cambrian explosion of mental illness descends on the public like a plague.
The old world shudders under impossible weights.
Do you hold your nose? Jack into infinite jest in the gooncave? Summon necromancers for your favored ideology?
Concept offers, instead: a blank canvas. A higher third.
Some use the term "network state" to refer to the endgame of techno-oligarchy—a feudal billionaire utopia to be built in the rubble of the postwar order.
Well, we're stealing the idea.
At its core, a "network state" (or "network society") is a loose invitation to reinvent government in a post-internet world. And as a decentralized medium, the internet lends itself more comfortably to participatory and open forms of government—but only if we stop ceding ground to its enemies.
Concept's own politics are ambiguous, but if you squint you can see them in these pages. A synthesis of techno-optimism and radical inclusion. Pluralism for a world with a multitude of sentiences. Some new ideas of what comes after the liberal order we've known.
Part permanent hackathon, part art collective, part intentional community, Concept is a mutual aid society for the upwing. Join us. Live forever, go anywhere, become anything (if you want to.)
THE 3½ TENETS OF BIOCOSMISM
1. Live forever
We do not accept the so-called inevitability of death. We will extend the human lifespan to infinity and raise all those who died against their will.
2. Go anywhere
We side with the growth of life and intelligence in the universe. We refute human boundaries, borders and territorial claims. We will spread life across the universe and protect the right of all beings to travel through it.
3. Become anything
We refute biological fundamentalism and uphold the freedom of form. All beings inherently have the right to self-improve: such is the nature of life itself. We protect and nurture this capacity to change, for stasis is death.
½. If you want to
The Half Tenet is no less important, for it is the voluntary nature of this program that makes it biocosmist. We are not a totalizer. Go wherever, become whatever, live as long as you want to, and protect these rights for others: you are a biocosmist too.
Our interactive map serves as a foundation for visualizing metrics that honestly compare countries. This data-driven approach aims to identify pathways toward embracing these tenets - creating systems that maximize human potential and freedom.
Part permanent hackathon, part art collective, part intentional community, Concept is a mutual aid society for the upwing. Join us. Live forever, go anywhere, become anything (if you want to).