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If we consider today's developments in advanced communication and the internet along with how nature organizes individual cellular organisms into bodies we might just be able to vaguely understand how a advanced stellar civilization might be organized. Eureka! Advanced stellar civilizations are organized and function the same way our bodies do!!!!!! For a number of years now I have been thinking that as civilization on earth develops it seems to be copying natural processes. The first cells were independent organisms in their own right that floated or swam about in the ancient oceans and still do today. Then these cells got together into structures like sponges and shared a common physical infrastructure. I compare this to small independent farmers who's sons and daughters move to the city and live in work in apartments and skyscrapers. The next evolutionary step in nature is for cells to begin to form advanced communication networks amongst themselves so as to work together as one organism. I compare this to the development of first telephone lines and telecommunications systems. When in nature a central control brain and nervous system develops in natural organisms I compare that to the now rapidly evolving internet. It is a know fact that when new life is created in an advanced organism as in a human, that life starts as a single cell that then divides into many cells and finally develops brain, nervous system, skeletal system etc. following the evolutionary patterns of life itself on this planet over billions of years. In humans the fetus grows gills, tail etc. following the evolutionary processes of life. In time the gills and tail get dropped and we have a fetus that looks human. I have to ask myself, is this process starting all over again with individual humans getting organized into cities, into structures with all the infrastructure to sustain life in each office and apartment? Are we just starting along the path that will one day result in huge space-time faring artificial environments supporting thousands perhaps millions and more people? With the advent of the Internet expanding amongst the autocratic planetary organizational regimes it seems to me that a new form of more advanced civilization on the horizon? Are we witnessing a new structure that equally distributes resources throughout the whole civilization or body of individuals. Are we becoming a civilization that only restricts and prioritizes resources in emergencies like when the brain shuts off blood flow to all but the must vital organs in an emergency, recognizing that losing a limb does not kill the whole organism but losing a brain will? If what I have to say here is true then we can expect advanced stellar civilizations to function as whole individuals rather than disorganized collections of cells organized in less advanced ways as in master-slave competitive relationships. In an advanced stellar civilization basic resources for individual survival and happiness might be allocated equally with all additional resources prioritized to different institutions within society. Extra resources would be allocated according to the overall benefit to the whole of society as in the vital organs of the body and applied selectively as to whatever task is at hand like to the muscle cells during a marathon run. In a nutshell I see an advanced civilization coming to a consensus amongst its individuals in real time, moment to moment, using artificial nervous networks and an advanced internet connected to intelligent computers. If a finger is injured or starved, that information is relayed through our central nervous system and actions are taken by the body as a whole to remedy the situation. I believe that exactly the same thing is happening with a stellar civilization. (organism) The 183