FOCAFET's networked community builds and supports symbiotic ecosystems. For this objective, the community finds inspiration in the symbiotic (quantum) design principles in nature and the constitution of the universe.
A symbiotic system refers to a system in which different components or entities work together in mutually beneficial relationships. The term is often inspired by biological symbiosis, where two or more different species or biochemical elements interact in ways that benefit at least one of them, and mostly more, enhancing possibilities in a system. In broader contexts, such as information, technology, business, or social systems, it emphasizes collaboration, interdependence, and the shared benefits of cooperation. Truly symbiotic systems work best at scale. More scale means more possibilities and these possibilities, as inputs, can combine and create even more possibilities as outputs.
Contrary to many human systems that contain biases or asymmetries, in nature, quantum systems are systemically symmetric and can (therefore) remain circular and can (therefore) reach symbiosis at boundless scales. So the larger the scale of inclusion in a quantum system, or larger inclusion of capabilities, the more attractive it becomes vis-à-vis systems that contain biases and leaks and consequently, are degenerative.
The development of quantum (conscious) symbiotic systems is quite a challenge. Proper working quantum ecosystems need for everything to be quantum. For instance, a 'quantum financial-monetary system', requires a 'quantum legal system', a 'quantum fiscal system' and a 'quantum information system' with 'quantum data' (and preferably quantum entanglement and quantum encryption), for it to work most properly. Besides this, people who develop and maintain quantum systems (and to a lesser degree) use these systems, also need to be to some extent quantum (design) conscious. Fortunately, there are ways to migrate in steps to quantum ecosystems that provide symbiotic advantages to its constituents.
Since quantum systems function symbiotically by design (hence their superior scaling and interoperability features), it makes sense to build quantum capabilities autonomously and once 'quantum compliant', these capabilities can then be added to 'the quantum ecosystem'. With every addition, the system becomes better and systemically more competitive. More quantum-able systems with more connected functions, outperform less quantum-able systems, with less connected functions. As a result, when larger and more quantum-able systems emerge, they tend to make non- or less quantum-able systems redundant.
First and foremost, there is a need to research, explain and communicate on how quantum systems and quantum design principles work in nature. Once it becomes clear why and how symbiosis works in natural ecosystems on the basis of quantum design principles, agendas can be set and aligned for a roadmap to build quantum symbiotic systems in stages and in synchronicity. For this purpose, an ontology is shared, a set of documents that can be used as foundational inspiration and initial blueprint. Eventually, these documents and blueprints can be enriched and amended by consensus of a growing community.
Concurrently, there is a need to introduce quantum law and quantum legal agreements to facilitate constructive communal development work on symbiotic systems. Current legal frameworks do not respect 'common ownership' or 'common governance' as they only recognise 'individuals', 'individual parties' or 'groups of individuals at most' to have 'rights' and 'obligations'. Such individuality induces asymmetries in ecosystems from the start. By creating collaboration agreements that explicitly provide possibilities without such possibilities constituting rights or obligations, common use and care of ecosystem solutions can be facilitated, while protecting common intellectual capital for their common purposes. This sounds easier than it is and requires efforts, yet provides for a better legal context than existing solutions for common collaboration that are based on less quantum-conscious legal agreements.
In order for any sizeable ecosystem to become functional and valuable, it needs to have abilities to share meaning and govern meaning among use(r)s and sources. Our current information and communication systems cannot do so for many different reasons. Should quantum design principles be applied in information ecosystems and in the definition of meaning, information and meaning can become self-descriptive. Self-descriptive meaning can autonomously interact with other meaning, without the need and above all boundaries of traditional applications. The FOCAFET community has developed self-descriptive quantised meaning algorithms, also referred to as quantum semantics. Quantum semantics are a kind of interlingual language that can facilitate interoperability between entities that communicate in (potentially any) human or machine language. Please note that governance, is conceptually nothing more than the application of meaning on other meaning. So with quantum semantics (or quantum data), we can finally interact and govern directly in very large, planetary-scale, ecosystems. Building such quantum-inspired collaborative common ecosystems cen provide legitimacy to the roles that entities have in an ecosystem. This is comparable to the working of DNA, a common code (or law) that is commonly set, in which organs (or institutions) can be provided with specific functions (or mandates), while they can also be taken away.
One of the biggest promises that the quantum age holds, is the unification of space and time by using quantum entanglement. Fundamentally, quantum entanglement takes away systemic asymmetries (in space and time). For instance, the asymmetric concepts of debt and obligation emerge when - in the context of a transaction - the delivery of goods does take place at a different moment in time than the payment for those goods. When payment and delivery occur at exactly the same time (either physically, virtually or by means of entanglement), no debt or obligation is to occur for engaging into a transaction. While it will likely take some time before applied quantum entanglement at large scales will take place, in the mean time synchronisation in virtual environments can already practically facilitate similar solutions. With the disappearance of space and time asymmetries, we can transact with each other free of debt (and / or obligation), especially if legal, compliance and fiscal clearing and settlement can also take place concurrently in events and transactions.