Michael Lucas Monterey: Creative Evolutionary

This is a post showing the Intro text for the final page of a new, forthcoming wiki on consitutional bio-ethical axiology (CBEW) for next-gen constitutional adapative intelligence agency (CAIA) advisory functions and personal advisor assstants (PAAs). The rest of the CBEA-wiki articles will soon be posted to a new page, devoted to ongoing R&D of CAIA and my embryonic whole-system solution: an agentic wide-area knowledge ecosystem (AWAKE), the next-gen infrastructure supporting optimal PAA P2P networks. The following link, below, takes you to the full page preprint draft on The Qualities of Love. Here’s the Intro:

The Nature and Qualities of Love (CBEA Wbase-wiki article: Non-technical human logic & personal motive-motifs)

This final article began in 1995 as a personal contemplation on the nature of love, and remains as such. Unlike every other article in this wiki, love is not a subject that can be treated honestly from the outside. A purely structural or ethical account of it would be evidence of missing realism.

Love is among the most invoked yet least defined of human concerns: the subject of most songs, literature, theater, religion, and a great deal of commerce. Yet, for all that use, it remains arguably the least understood. It has been offered to excuse both the highest sacrifice and the gravest harms. “Crimes of passion” were long seen as temporary insanity, and conflicts of every scale have been waged over some ‘beloved’ cause. The world still suffers mass-destruction, factional or religiously-framed conflict, with severe collateral harm to all parties, often for something held dear. Yet, nearly every human has a real stake in sustainable happiness, wellness, and love, at best for all generations, and at least for our own sake.

So, this page is last, but not least. The logical architecture of everything preceding exists, in the end, in service of what logic alone can never encompass. A strictly logical framework for advising living humans in the real-world, saying what love is or requires of them, would be hollow to the core. The hardest dilemmas a CAIA’s advisory function will face are precisely those in which real wellness, happiness, and love are at stake. So, this article is offered as the bio-ethical baseline for those fuzzy, dire human dilemmas, with uncertain consequences for both near-term and the long-term future. What follows is a catalog of reflections on love’s essentials—from personal experience and study—not definitions, but recognition of what seem generally accepted qualities. This is offered, not decreed, as one person’s views. So, though gathered over many years, this article remains open-ended, inviting input, refinement, and extension by all who care to, readers, contributors, and a future CBEA Council as well.

Link to the full draft content > Google Drive