Possibilian Manifesto

The Manifesto is the human layer of Possibility Sciences: a stance, a practice, and a standard for how we build. Where the Laws define the backbone, the Manifesto defines the movement—what we choose, how we show up, and the bar we hold for rigor, ethics, and scale.

A Possibilian¹ treats imagination as infrastructure: map the system, design the constraints, simulate consequences, then build in public. It’s a craft that fuses systems thinking, social and behavioral science, advanced AI/simulation, design thinking, network theory, exponential technologies, and public-interest tech so that every experiment becomes reusable evidence, every breakthrough becomes shared capability, and markets become vehicles for regeneration.

This is an invitation and a commitment. Don’t wait for permission or perfect forecasts. Convene the unusual allies, run the hard tests, codify what works, and open the results. Replace closed, fractured efforts with a connected, zero-waste engine for the next century, so moonshots become a civic and commercial practice, and our institutions are re-architected for a world of continual acceleration. The systems we inherited weren’t built for the pace ahead; it’s time to build the ones that are.

1. ‘Possibilian’ is David Eagleman’s term for a stance between the certainties of theism and atheism—an openness to multiple, testable ‘maybes’ about ultimate questions (afterlife, divinity, cosmology). See Eagleman’s essay ‘Why I Am a Possibilian’ (New Scientist, 2010), the New Yorker profile ‘The Possibilian’ (2011), and possibilian.com. Note that Eagleman’s usage leans toward metaphysical/religious inquiry (e.g., Sum’s forty speculative afterlives) rather than a general innovation methodology.