Bitcoin was designed from the start to resist government control—and it works. Discover how cryptocurrency eliminates inflation, seizure, and transaction censorship, proving that voluntary systems can replace coercive financial institutions.

If politics and political systems don’t work, what does? The parallel social structure proposed by volitional science is built on voluntary exchange, market justice, and the Clearinghouse. It handles both financial wrongdoing and violent crime more effectively than the state, morally and without coercion.

The insurance industry was born by tackling risk head-on, but has become risk-averse. Volitional science envisions insurers who invest in eliminating risks rather than treating them as permanent revenue streams—from birth defects to the hazards of space exploration.

This post offers a scientific framework for understanding why every political system fails predictably and certainly. The downward spiral is always the same: the state interferes with the production upon which it depends. Volitional science offers an alternative based on a parallel systems that make political coercion obsolete.

AI is producing code and creative work by drawing on the intellectual contributions of millions of prior researchers. Volitional science offers the only coherent framework for answering the question that current IP law cannot: who owns what AI builds from humanity’s accumulated knowledge?

When an insurer purchases a proprietary interest in your well-being, profit and protection align. From auto insurance to firefighting, the insurance model shows how market incentives can replace coercive state functions with noncoercive, cost-effective alternatives.

Guest contributor Jim Spohrer proposes two radical measures that would move society toward a more noncoercive future. Both proposals align closely with volitional science’s strategy for making coercion obsolete.

AI entrepreneur Matt Shumer warns that AI is advancing so fast that most people are unprepared. He’s right about the speed, but wrong about what it means—because intelligence without volition is still just a tool, and the real danger isn’t the tool, but who controls it.

The “Innovator’s Dilemma” explains why companies fail to embrace disruption, but misses the root cause. Without property rights for ideas, companies can ignore innovations without consequence. If innovators owned their ideas, it would solve the dilemma.

Volitional science shows that the same components required to establish a successful colony on Mars—entrepreneurship, cooperation, property rights, noncoercive incentives—are exactly what we need to solve existential threats here on Earth.

AI can process information and solve problems, but it lacks the ability to make genuine choices. Volitional intelligence itself is what differentiates AI from humanity; AI lacks the subjective “self” and the will to survive that drives human choice.

The employer-employee hierarchy creates inherent conflicts, but a shift toward contractual buyer-seller relationships can transform work into mutual profit-seeking. Buyers pay for value instead of time, while sellers control their own destiny and earn based on performance.

This post demonstrates how cooperation emerges through voluntary coordination. not through coerced collective planning. History shows that freely chosen cooperation has produced every major human innovation without requiring central planning or sacrificing individual agency.

Volitional science proposes new entities—NETCOs—that would cover all intellectual property perpetually and invest in ideas at the earliest stages. Paired with Clearinghouses that manage ownership information and payments, these systems are the next evolution of IP management.

Volitional science proposes perpetual ownership through legal entities that track idea ownership forever. This framework would unleash innovation by ensuring creators and their heirs profit perpetually from ideas.

Noncoercion—the absence of force and fraud—is essential for progress and freedom. It’s embedded in the Golden Rule’s principle of not forcing your will on others. History shows that coercion suppresses knowledge and destroys prosperity, whereas cooperation can maintain order without state coercion.

Free markets are “noncoercive discovery engines” that emerge from property ownership, where millions of voluntary exchanges reveal what people truly value. Unlike command economies that concentrate power and force outcomes, markets disperse decision-making and foster win-win relationships through competition and cooperation.

Volitional science recognizes three types of property: your body (primordial), your ideas (primary), and tangible creations (secondary). When societies protect property rights—as British Common Law did, sparking the Industrial Revolution—they unleash innovation and prosperity.

Volitional science rests on two moral absolutes: first, that we act to pursue greater happiness; second, that all noncoercive pursuits are equally valid. These postulates explain how markets arise from voluntary exchanges and why morality reduces to a single principle—avoid coercion.

Astrophysicist Andrew Galambos pioneered volitional science in the 1950s-70s, applying the scientific method to understand how human choices shape society. Building on his foundation, we’ve developed a roadmap for gradually replacing coercive political states with noncoercive governance systems.

Humanity faces a stark choice between two paths: continue with coercive political systems that stifle innovation and risk nuclear catastrophe, or embrace absolute rights and noncoercive markets that can transform humanity into a spacefaring civilization.

Volitional beings—that’s us—make choices in pursuit of survival and happiness. Volitional science applies the scientific method to understanding how these choices create social systems, and proposes that moral absolutes should govern our cultural evolution.