Open Questions

The seed defines a direction and a method. It does not yet provide a complete institutional design. Priority areas include:

• Flourishing: What should count as improvement, and how do we represent conflicting needs?
• Rights: Which protections constrain collective goals, and how are conflicts resolved?
• Legitimate authority: When may one person or group make binding decisions affecting others?
• Power: How is authority granted, bounded, audited, rotated, and removed?
• Economics: How should ownership, labour, essentials, dependency, and unequal bargaining power be addressed?
• Knowledge: How can expertise inform decisions without acquiring unchecked authority?
• Conflict and repair: How should disputes, accountability, restitution, and reintegration work?
• Scale: What belongs locally, and what requires coordination across communities?
• Ecology and technology: How should uncertain, widespread, or irreversible harms be evaluated?
• Transition: How can changes be tested without creating coercive emergency authority?
• Failure and exit: How can people replace institutions, and what happens to those unable to leave?
• Culture and learning: How can healthy habits and shared meaning develop while protecting pluralism?
• Project governance: Who may merge changes, what review is required, and how can maintainers be replaced?

These are invitations for research and proposals. Mark proposed answers as drafts until a documented process establishes otherwise.