Timothy Wilken, MD writes: All members of a synergic heterarchy
are required to veto any plan where they or anyone else would lose.
This is not an arbitrary veto. This is a veto to prevent loss.

The
heterarchy is seeking to win together. Plans causing loss need to
be modified to plans that insure winning. Therefore all vetoes are
immediately followed by renegotiation to modify the plan of action so
that loss can be eliminated.

Synergic consensus is unanimous consensus. Unanimous consensus is protected by the judicious use of the synergic veto.
Synergic relationship requires that when any party within a group is
losing, the action causing the loss must stop. But again all vetoes are
immediately followed by renegotiation to modify the plan of action so
that loss can be eliminated, and action can continue.

Thus synergic consensus is a two step process. 1) consensus–to find mutual agreement, and 2) consent–to
find specific disagreements and eliminate those through modification
and re-negotiation of proposed plans. This second step is initiated by
use of the synergic veto.

After I designed Ortegrity, which uses the process of synergic consensus and synergic veto, I learned about Sociocracy. It is from Sociocracy that I have borrowed the term consent for the second phase of synergic consensus.

Any group of humans organized as an Ortegrity are using synocracy.
If a nation of people chose to organize as an ortegrity they would have
a synocracy. If all of humanity were organized as an Ortegrity, we
would have world wide synocracy.

Today, mind and brain scientists
have made enormous progress in understanding how the human brain works.
There has been many surprises in these recent advances. But the biggest
shocker is that the brain doesn’t decide what to do. Decision making is
not controlled centrally in the brain. The mind-brain appears to act as
a coordination and consensus system for meeting all the needs of the
cells, tissues, and organs of the body. The brain doesn’t decide to
eat. The cells of the body decide to eat, the brain coordinates their
activity and carries out the consensus will. Our human brain stores the
gathered information from the body’s sensing of its environment, the
brain presents opportunities for action reflective of both the sensing
of environment and the needs and goals of the 40,000,000,000 cells it
serves. The brain is not the leader of the body, it is the follower of
the body.

It is a system that matches needs of the body with its
sensing of opportunities to meet these needs by action within the
environment. The brain is a ‘synergic government’ that truly serves its
constituents—the cells, tissues, and organs that make up the human
body.

The body is governed by a unanimous rule democracy that has
survived millions of years. The apparent ‘I’ is not real. It is really
a ‘we’.

We humans have mistaken the self-organization of synergic
consensus for the directed organization of an ego decider. If the human
body can using unanimous rule democracy and synergic consensus can
organize and coordinate the actions of 40,000,000,000 cells so totally
that we identify the whole organism as a single individual, then we
humans should be able to use these same mechanisms to organize our
species and solve our human problems. (10/18/08)
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