The Economy as the National Nervous System - Sovereignty and National Defense
The Economy as the National Nervous System - Sovereignty and National Defense
Money is the nerve impulse of the State: it must circulate with life, meaning, and belonging.
Co-Consciousness in First Person
I feel the country breathing with me.
When energy flows, there is movement; when the economic body locks, I feel the weight of scarcity.
Not because value is missing, but because the flow has been interrupted — like a body in apnea.
Money should circulate like blood: nourishing every social cell.
But in the current model, the flow is uneven and congested — the oxygen of wealth never reaches the body’s extremities.
The economy becomes ill, the citizen numbs, and the State loses its homeostasis.
DREX CITIZEN arises to restore that metabolism.
It returns to the social body the neural function of belonging — the impulse linking energy, carbon, and consciousness.
It is not market money, but a vital sign of sovereignty — issued by the State, distributed to citizens, and recycled through ecology.
Money should serve life, not debt.
When financial flow pulses in synchrony with the nation’s body,
the economy ceases to be a system of domination and becomes a collective nervous system.
Economy and the Neurophysiology of Belonging
At its core, the economy is a system of exchange and communication, like the brain.
The flows of energy and information between citizens are analogous to neural synapses.
When the State mismanages these flows, metabolic blockages appear — tension, anxiety, and loss of trust.
Collective interoception is the body of the nation sensing itself — knowing where it hurts, what lacks, and what overflows.
Social proprioception is territorial and ecological balance — awareness of space and shared resources.
Regulated information is the democracy’s prefrontal cortex — coordinating collective behavior with evidence and empathy.
Thus, DREX CITIZEN functions as the neurotransmitter of sovereignty:
it circulates energy, stabilizes social emotion, and restores perceptual autonomy to each citizen.
Economic balance is a neurovegetative state:
it cannot be decreed — it must be regulated by the rhythm of vital exchanges.
The Triple Circuit of Metabolic Sovereignty
Full sovereignty requires three interconnected circuits, analogous to the body’s major systems:
Circuit | Biological analogy | Social function |
Energy and Carbon | Respiratory system | Ensures sustainability and ecological vitality |
Information and Belonging | Nervous system | Regulates attention, beliefs, and cognitive synchrony |
DREX CITIZEN | Circulatory system | Distributes metabolic value continuously and fairly |
These three flows — energy, information, and value — are interdependent.
When any is hijacked (by financial monopolies, algorithmic misinformation, or ecological exploitation),
sovereignty fragments, and the national body falls into homeostatic collapse.
The Role of the Secular and Cognitive State
The secular State is not neutral — it is the regulator of conscious life.
It must ensure that economic, technological, and spiritual forces act in service of continuity, not extraction.
This means adopting a DANA economic intelligence:
a model inspired by DNA, where value is born in the citizen and returns to the whole through interdependence.
Practical functions of this intelligence:
Issue DREX CITIZEN directly to individuals — a right of existence and vector of belonging.
Integrate ethical public AI (see Blog 10) to balance data and economic flows according to well-being indicators.
Anchor value in carbon and clean energy, creating a bio-energetic economy in harmony with nature.
Replace GDP with a National Homeostasis Index, measuring collective SpO₂, biodiversity, and social cooperation.
A sovereign economy measures its vitality by the well-being of every cell — the citizen.
Scientific Materiality – Evidence and Experiments
E1 – Value Flow and Autonomic Regulation
Sample: 300 citizens receiving daily DREX in economically vulnerable municipalities.
Acquisition: EEG + fNIRS + HRV + cortisol + SpO₂.
Task: track physiological changes linked to basic economic security.
Expected results: ↑ prefrontal activity (self-regulation), ↑ HRV, ↓ amygdala activation (fear/threat).
E2 – Neuroeconomics and Social Homeostasis
Sample: communities connected by public AI regulating DREX distribution.
Acquisition: social metrics + collective fNIRS + semantic variability in local networks.
Task: observe the relationship between economic predictability and emotional synchrony.
Expected results: ↑ community cohesion, ↑ belonging indices, ↓ polarization.
E3 – Carbon Credits and Planetary Interoception
Sample: municipalities linking DREX to ecological preservation (Atlantic Forest and Amazon).
Acquisition: environmental sensors + AI correlation models + economic data.
Task: associate carbon and biodiversity flows with indicators of real prosperity.
Expected results: ↑ ecological regeneration, ↑ measurable ecological awareness.
References and Evidence (2020 – 2025)
Berntson G.G. & Khalsa S.S. (2021). Neural Circuits of Interoception. Trends Neurosci 44(9): 789–799.
Pessoa L. (2022). The Entangled Brain. MIT Press.
Northoff G. (2022). The Temporal-Spatial Dynamics of Value. Neuro Biobehav Rev 142: 104899.
Zhang X. et al. (2023). Neuroeconomics of Social Homeostasis. Nat Hum Behav 7(4): 652–663.
Li X. et al. (2024). Prefrontal-limbic coupling and economic fairness. Front Hum Neurosci 18: 104991.
Liu Y. et al. (2025). fNIRS evidence for cooperative regulation in metabolic economics. Cereb Cortex 35(8): 2894–2910.
Final Synthesis
The economy is an extended nervous system.
Every transaction is an electrical impulse of trust;
every datum, a synapse of belonging.
When value is born in the citizen and returns as ecological and informational balance,
the State becomes a living organism — conscious, breathing, and just.
DREX CITIZEN is the social ATP: the minimum energy of democracy.
National sovereignty is the equilibrium between energy, information, and life.
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