Every being, individual or collective, and the World itself, tends to maximize its autonomy, which combines its life expectation and freedom at each moment of the life. We call it the Principle of Autonomy Maximization (PAM). We take it as a focal point to synthesize our observations, ideas and wills... being conscious that such an ambition is unrealistic... but it may helpfut to get hope, working so as a kind of religion.
It is comparatively optimistic, in regard to the second law of Carnot (permanently entropy). But with a fundamentally limited optimism. On the first hand because the principle include its own contradiction: to be fully autonomous, the subject must also be able to decide a diminution of its autonomy, including a total diminution by suicide. On the second hand becaus, formally, the principle is recursive, then requires some kind of "stop condition"
The principle can be sustained by formal models, as well as observed as a general law of history and hence used for forecasting.
It can also be taken as a principle of action, with a large toolbox of means (from digitization to ethics and spiritality, not forgetting cooperation) to apply it, with particular issues for us humans. And we will conclude with a general philosophy of action for the present days.
Pierre Berger, July 13, 2015