In the January 2025 ET Board Meeting, Aziz talks about how nature organizes bigger structures, like whole civilizations. Essentially, civilizations can be seen as "corporations" that strive for growth and profit, whereas profit is not just limited to financial profit, but is a more subjective term.

So, let's talk about corporations, what they are, and why this knowledge is so important.

The term corporation comes from the latin word "corpus", which means "body". A corporation is a group of beings that cooperate in order to create a bigger structure – a bigger body – that wouldn't exist otherwise.

In that sense, if you imagined the cells of your physical body as individual beings, your body would be a corporation that only exists because the cells are cooperating with each other in order to achieve a higher goal.

Now, the important question when it comes to a species or civilization is: How is the cooperation of the individual beings achieved? There are two opposing ways:

1. Forced cooperation

The individual beings who form the corporation work together either against their free will, or because they don't have free will. For example, the cells of your body don't have free will – they follow the "code" that defines how your body works without any individualized awareness or survival instinct. They don't see themselves as individuals. If they did, your body would most likely disintegrate within seconds.

This is the basic idea that authoritarian regimes are built upon. The regime determines the code that everybody has to follow just like a cell follows the code of the physical body. That's why it's called "authoritarian" – the regime determines what's happening like an author who is writing a book. The characters in the book have no free will, they are determined to follow the path given by the author.

2. Voluntary cooperation

In contrast to forcing everything into place, it's possible to build a corporation based on free will. This means that you have to achieve that the individuals who form your corporation actually want to stay. Think of a simple corporation here on Earth that's trying to sell something, like a smartphone, for instance. You don't have to buy their product, nobody forces you. So, why would you buy it? What could be a good reason to stay loyal to a corporation if you are not forced?

And this shows you one important fact: Creating a corporation with brute force is the easy way compared to the alternative. It's what you do when you want to achieve something, but you are too lazy (or too stupid) to earn loyalty and trust. Just force them. No true intelligence required, just muscles.

So, creating corporations based on voluntaryism is more difficult and therefore the higher achievement. And at a certain point you realize that it even yields more profit in the long run. It doesn't matter wether it's materialistic or spiritual in nature.

So, what type of corporation do you want to be part of? Do you want to be a forced cell inside a body, like a drone in the Borg collective? Or do you want to be part of something that's build on free will and true appreciation?

That's what the choice is all about...

Re : «the cells of your body don't have free will»
Of course they have free-will; they just use it for your mutual-benefit; And they are a part of you (or your meat-suit) so they are technically you (or your meat-suit) and if you treat your body (meat-suit) well then your body (meat-suit) will also be good to you!

Re : «The characters in the book have no free will, they are determined to follow the path given by the author.»
An author does not necessarily need to «direct» the story or the script; the «author» could simply be «journaling» and writing down «like a diary» of what is being observed, and, if those «cells» are acting in a manner that looks like orderly fashion, then so-be-it.

Re : «You don't have to buy their product, nobody forces you.»
That is because you do not necessarily need such products; when it comes to cells in the body, how-ever, what everybody does is kind of needed, sort of like how parents need to feed their children if they do not want their children to die of starvation, provide a roof over their heads & shelter & warmth so that they can get good quality sleep in order to achieve & maintain optimum-health, whilst a cell-phone or other such corporate-products is not necessarily an actual-necessity.

Re : «but you are too lazy (or too stupid)»
Damnit... I has been caught red-handed ! =O

Re : [the rest...]
Eh ? I don't have a choice but to actually eat if I don't want to starve; nor do I have a choice but to actually consume water if I don't want to dehydrate; and I am also forced to sleep... otherwise I end up being forced to yawn and may even get horrible head-aches... D=

Edit/Addendum: And here is a relevant video with a clearly Click-Bait Title...

@Aéius Cercle

"Of course they have free-will; they just use it for your mutual-benefit"

How do you know? Did you talk to the cells of your body? Have you asked them why they chose to work for you voluntarily? What was their answer?

"the «author» could simply be «journaling» and writing down «like a diary» of what is being observed"

A person doing that is not an author by definition. An author is a creator. If you just report an observation, you aren't creating anything new, but just repeat what already has been created. In the same way, you aren't the author when you copy a text.

"I don't have a choice but to actually eat if I don't want to starve;"

Well, all you say here is that choices limit outcomes, which is exactly the purpose of choices. If you don't want to starve, you have made a free choice, creating requirements based on necessities (in this case, you have to eat). But this doesn't mean you are forced, it just means it's what is necessary to get what you want.

For example, if you want to sleep in your bed, you have to go to your bed. You are then bound to your bed. If you don't want to be bound to your bed, just make a different choice. It's a free choice because there is no necessity to sleep in your own bed.

So, understanding necessities is key. There are two types: Natural necessities, and artifical or fake necessities.

Natural necessities are not forced upon you. You have no choice because there simply is no other possibility to get what you want, because of natural law.

Fake necessities are created by other beings. They are fake because it's the being that is limiting the possible outcomes, not natural law. In other words: That being is not God and therefore has no right to limit your choices, but it acts like as if it had that right. This is why violence and coercion is wrong. It's logically incorrect.

"And here is a relevant video"

Quote from the video: "Something in your brain had to know..."

No. I wanted to know. Has nothing to do with my brain.