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 individuals in such a system give up a certain amount of independence, but are returned many times over by enhanced quality of life, individual happiness and a higher level of consciousness that no one individual or group of individuals could possibly imagine.

Eureka!!! Wow that?s it!!!! It?s so damn simple !!!!!!

If civilizations for some reason fail to evolve then we can expect powerful destructive devolutionary effects. A civilization devolving might still be very powerful and dangerous until it finally collapses from the destructive effects of ever more sophisticated predatory internal and external interrelationships. Not a very pleasant prospect for the future of earth's humanity should we choose to go that route.