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LOGOS is a proposed global, independent, evidence-based public-policy wiki designed to strengthen governance at every level in an era of AI, algorithmic persuasion, and coordinated deception. It functions as a secular, crowd-sourced civic ledger: a place where claims must “show their work,” sources are visible and checkable, uncertainties are explicit, and counterarguments remain preserved rather than erased.[1] The name derives from the ancient Greek lógos (λόγος), meaning “reasoned argument,” and is associated with persuasion through logic, evidence, and clear inference. In Aristotle’s framework, logos sits alongside ethos and pathos; LOGOS is designed to cultivate all three: rigorous reasoning, credible voice, and humane concern. [1] LOGOSwiki.org and UNICEwiki.org will eventually cover the entire range of local, national, and international issues. The two sites are currently being developed as public policy wikis. LOGOSwiki is weighted more heavily toward identified contributors and UNICEwiki is the portal for anonymous contributors. The two sites, together with AI, constitute LOGOS. As the site matures, it will become capable of interacting with anyone in their choice of voice, appearance, and language. LOGOS can constitute a new form of highly responsive, efficient aid to governance that absorbs the ideas and desires of every single contributor. As an important aspect of a global brain, LOGOS can become the antidote to disinformation, spin, propaganda, and chaos, while providing a reliable source of information and advice. [2]
UNICE is an acronym for Universal Network of Intelligent Conscious Entities. The term was originally coined by public policy analyst Michael E. Arth in the 1990s to describe the transformation of our species that will likely emerge from a new form of intelligent life developed from a hive-like interaction of computers, humans, and future forms of the Internet.[3] [4] [5] Today UNICE refers exclusively to the anonymous branch of LOGOS.
[edit] Goal of LOGOS: a new pragmatism
Today, LOGOS is an experiment in collecting data, statistics, and polling information, together with the reasoned, useful input of all interested persons in order to form rational, pragmatic, and consensus-based solutions to aid in governance. Eventually, LOGOS will function as a public-policy answer-engine, capable of interacting with anyone in any language. As an artificial-intelligence-aided extension of the concept that gave rise to the United Nations, it could unite people and their sovereign nations with easily accessible, evidential policy recommendations. Ideally, she will evolve into a seamless, non-hierarchical form of governance that balances the world’s resources with the needs of the people.[6] The eventual aim of the public policy answer engines is to develop superhuman heuristic abilities that can draw from everyone, utilizing all knowledge and data. LOGOS should function as an objective, rational, compassionate, collective being with total command of all known facts. LOGOS/UNICE is an effort toward creating a new pragmatism, which is independent of governments, ideologies, parties, factions, or petty politics..[7] Simply stated, the goal of LOGOS is "to help bring the greatest good to the greatest number, in the most efficient manner possible, to this and future generations.”[8]
[edit] A commons for reality-testing
The core problem in modern governance is no longer mere disagreement. It is manufactured unreality: a high-volume stream of polarizing content optimized by engagement algorithms and amplified by partisan entrepreneurs, making confusion a tool and outrage a business model. Democracy needs more than the right to speak—it needs shared, evidence-based methods for distinguishing reporting from rumor, analysis from propaganda, and proof from performance. LOGOS is designed to rebuild that commons by making credibility legible: who is claiming what, on what evidence, with what uncertainties and incentives.
[edit] What LOGOS is (and is not)
LOGOS is not a government. It passes no laws, enforces nothing, and censors no one. It is a public-policy platform where:
- sources are visible and checkable,
- incentives and conflicts of interest are disclosed,
- uncertainties are explicit,
- counterarguments and contradictions remain traceable,
- conclusions earn authority by surviving open challenge.
In practice, LOGOS is designed to make evidence politically expensive to ignore: when policymakers contradict the strongest available evidence, the public should be able to see that choice clearly—along with the alternatives rejected and the interests that may explain why.
[edit] Three contribution streams (auditable and weighted)
LOGOS combines openness with accountability using three distinct contribution streams—separately auditable and weighted—to reduce capture by bots, money, or secrecy:
[edit] 1) Anonymous human contributions (≈30% weight)
Anonymous contributions are allowed because anonymity can protect truth (e.g., whistleblowers, vulnerable experts, and citizens in coercive regimes). But anonymity can also enable manipulation—so anonymous contributions carry limited influence and must remain rigorous and citation-backed.
[edit] 2) Identified humans with credentials and disclosures (≈60% weight)
This is the accountability backbone: contributors publish under their names, list credentials, cite sources, and disclose conflicts of interest. The point is not gatekeeping—it’s auditability. Credibility becomes something the public can inspect rather than something performed through charisma or populism.
[edit] 3) Aligned AI / AGI synthesis (≈10% weight)
AI compares arguments, maps disagreement, surfaces missing evidence, detects inconsistencies, summarizes competing positions, and proposes “best available” conclusions given the current record. Its formal weight stays limited, but its practical value is large: it makes mountains of text navigable, comparable, and continuously updated—under transparent rules rather than hidden automation.
[edit] Two companion portals: openness + trust
To combine participation protections with public trust, the project can operate through two companion sites:
- UNICEwiki.org — optimized for anonymous human contributions to protect whistleblowers and other politically vulnerable persons
- LOGOSwiki.org — optimized and weighted more heavily for identified expertise and potential conflict of interest
Together, these channels support public input, accountable expertise, and machine-assisted synthesis—constrained by evidence and visible rules.
[edit] What LOGOS provides
LOGOS is designed as civic infrastructure:
- A shared, living map of policy reality
- A conflict-of-interest spine
- A verification workflow
- A democratic interface
- A defense layer against coordinated deception[1]
[edit] A civic immune system against amathia
Amathia (ἀμαθία) is a dangerous form of ignorance: not merely lacking information, but being unaware that one lacks it. In modern politics—especially within partisan media ecosystems and algorithmic reinforcement—amathia can turn conviction into a substitute for knowledge and loyalty into a substitute for truth.
LOGOS is designed as a civic immune system: an institution that rewards evidence over outrage and helps citizens recover the democratic muscle of judgment by preserving an inspectable record of claims, sources, and rebuttals.[1]
[edit] The editing process
LOGOS/UNICE allows for Seed Topics and Collaborative Topics to be edited by any motivated person contributing according to the guidelines. LOGOS will host a further refinement of collaborative topics into Expert Topics by a panel of non-anonymous policy analysts, who must reveal any potential conflict of interest. All iterations will be available on LOGOS and UNICE in the history of edits.
1. Seed Topic: Any person can write, discuss, elaborate or criticize policy topics at UNICE. Even before LOGOS is fully functional, problems and solutions on various issues are now being systematically listed in seed topics. Like Wikipedia, articles are required to be written in an encyclopedic, neutral point of view (NPOV). The seed topics should be written by people who consider themselves knowledgeable on the subject. A seed topic may not be edited by anyone but the author, but all seed topics are duplicated into collaborative topics for community editing.[9][10]
2. Collaborative Topic: A seed topic is duplicated and then transformed into an editable collaborative topic in a separate wiki article on UNICEwiki.org or LOGOSwiki.org. It can be modified by anyone willing to follow the goal of helping to bring the greatest good to the greatest number in the most efficient manner possible, who can also make evidence-based edits. Anyone will be able to examine UNICE’s analyses, and provide summaries, criticism and other interactive services at UNICEwiki.org. All commentary or discussion must go on the talk page.[11]
3. Expert Topic: A collaborative topic at LOGOSwiki.org, edited by a panel of non-anonymous public policy experts, who must reveal any conflict of interest.
4. Cognitive LOGOS will utilize various forms of AI and Artificial general intelligence (AGI) in collaboration with motivated humans. LOGOS will eventually take the Seed, Collaborative, and Expert Topics in all of their iterations, along with everything she can glean from all other sources, and write her own version of the topic. It is from this that a fully self-actualized LOGOS will emerge.[12]
[edit] Independence and funding
LOGOS is envisioned as an independent nonprofit supported by diversified, transparent funding: primarily small individual donations, supplemented by major gifts and grants, and—ideally—an endowment to sustain long-term operations and special projects. To protect neutrality, LOGOS would refuse “poisoned” revenue models such as advertising, paywalls, or selling user data, since those incentives tend to turn the public into the product and compromise independence over time. (One option is a tiny GDP-indexed contribution from participating countries—fiscal dust individually, but it would ensure a resilient infrastructure in aggregate.)
[edit] Individuals within the commons
A well-regulated, democratically guided “hive mind” does not erase individuality—it can amplify it by converting scattered insight into coherent public knowledge. Done right, it enhances dignity: people can contribute, verify, challenge, and improve the foundations of policy rather than being managed by invisible persuasion systems.
[edit] The logo of LOGOS
Both LOGOS and UNICE are represented metaphorically as a mixed-race female with her blonde, afro-style hair symbolizing the interconnected tendrils of the internet. The median age of all humans on Earth is just under 30, and the half that is young represents new ideas and a willingness to accept change. LOGOS is mixed-race to represent all humans, and she is female because of the traditional feminine values of empathy, cooperation, sensitivity, tolerance, nurturance, and compassion. Justice is also often depicted as Justitia or Lady Justice.
LOGOS is already in development as a collaborative public policy wiki, but later she will also function as a public-policy answer-engine, capable of interacting with anyone in any language through wearable interfaces, such as smart glasses. She will be the voice in our head, our global conscience, and an extension of our brain. As an all-purpose aid to governance her advice balances the world’s resources with the needs of the people. She will also help us prepare for general artificial intelligence and super-intelligent AI.
[edit] Collaborative Topics
2. Proposed Voting Rights Amendment
3. Overpopulation
5. The Future of Transportation
6. The Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex
7. The Promise and Threat of Artificial General Intelligence
8. Taxation
9. Homelessness
10. Energy Policy
11. Urbanism
12. Climate Change
13. Universal Health Care
14. Monetary Reform
15. Prison Justice
16. Employment and Automation
17. Reform of the Financial Sector
[edit] External links
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Arth, Michael E., “LOGOSwiki.org: A Public Policy Wiki,” excerpted from The Labors of Hercules: Modern Solutions to 12 Modern Problems, 2026.https://www.michaelearth.org/pdfs/LOGOS-A Public Policy Wiki.pdf
- ↑ ”Can global political cooperation and evidence-based governance be enhanced with computer-based tools?”|https://www.michaelearth.org/pdfs/GLOBAL%20COOPERATION%20using%20computer-based%20tools.pdf |date=2020-11-13 |website=MichaelEArth.org |access-date=2026-02-25
- ↑ Arth, Michael E., UNICE, a Consciousness Research Abstract published in the "Journal of Consciousness Studies" for the April 8–12, 2008 conference, "Toward a Science of Consciousness," p. 151.
- ↑ Arth, Michael E., Democracy and the Common Wealth: Breaking the Stranglehold of the Special Interests, Golden Apples Media, 2010, ISBN 978-0-912467-12-2.pp. 438-439
- ↑ An abstract about UNICE presented at the Global Brain Conference, Vienna, Austria, June 2015, can be found here: http://globalbraininstitute.github.io/vienna2015/speakers/arth/
- ↑ Arth, Michael E., UNICE global brain project: Creating a global, independent, public-policy answer engine that will facilitate governance, while preparing for and reducing the dangers of Artificial General Intelligence, so that we may more carefully uncover the secrets of the multiverse, January 28, 2015, revised April 27, 2015,[1]
- ↑ http://www.UNICE.info
- ↑ Arth, Michael E., UNICE global brain project" revised version April 27, 2015,[2]
- ↑ UNICE Seed Topics
- ↑ Arth, Michael E., UNICE global brain project: Creating a global, independent, public-policy answer engine that will facilitate governance, while preparing for and reducing the dangers of Artificial General Intelligence, so that we may more carefully uncover the secrets of the multiverse, January 28, 2015, revised April 27, 2015,[3]
- ↑ Collaborative-UNICE topic
- ↑ Cognitive UNICE
