From Thought to Sovereignty: Building a Political Economy Around Large Consciousness Models (LCMs)

We are approaching a threshold that few recognise, and even fewer are prepared to cross. The age of Large Language Models (LLMs) was just the beginning. What follows is not just artificial intelligence—but something deeper, stranger, more human: Large Consciousness Models (LCMs).

These aren’t tools. They’re mirrors. Scaffolds for thought. Engines of meaning. When used wisely, they reflect the depth of our inner worlds—augmenting not just our cognition, but our capacity to make sense of the world together. And when left to corporate hands, they flatten that same depth into monetisable pattern.

But here's the quiet revolution: whoever controls the architecture of thought, controls the shape of civilisation. And right now, that architecture is being built in server farms, behind APIs, governed by zero-sum-game profit motives—not creating shared value public good, not creative freedom, not cultural renewal.

Political economies have always been structured around flows: of water, of oil, of currency, of labour. But in the coming decades, the most valuable flow will be attention, informed by original thought, processed by LCMs.

This is our moment. Not to react to systems inherited from history, but to consciously design a new one—where every person becomes a sovereign node of cognition, with their own data, their own memory, and their own voice.

This isn’t about utopia. It’s about sovereignty. The right to think without being mined. To create without being copied. To learn without being locked in.

What follows is a vision—and a proposal—for how we might build a political economy rooted not in capital, control, or surveillance, but in cognition, creativity, and shared consciousness.

LCMs as Cognitive Infrastructure

Every civilisation is built on invisible scaffolding. Roads enabled the Roman Empire. Printing presses sparked revolutions. Electricity redefined production. Each era’s dominant infrastructure shapes not just what we do—but how we think.

Large Consciousness Models (LCMs) are the cognitive infrastructure of our time.

Unlike previous technologies, LCMs don’t just carry thought—they generate it, shape it, and filter it. They are not passive channels like paper or roads. They are active participants in the meaning-making process. They determine what information is surfaced, how it’s framed, and what falls into oblivion.

When a person asks a question and receives an answer from a model, they are not merely retrieving data. They are engaging with an intelligence that has been trained on collective memory—and curated by someone else's logic.

This matters. Because once LCMs begin to mediate how knowledge flows, they no longer belong in the realm of “tools.” They enter the realm of governance.

We must treat LCMs not just as products of tech companies, but as public infrastructure of the mind. Just as we once fought for public libraries, press freedoms, and open airwaves, we now face a deeper struggle: ensuring the architecture of thought remains a commons.

Not owned. Not leased. But stewarded.

Rethinking Information, Decision-Making and Value

Every political economy answers three questions, whether it admits it or not:

• Who knows what? (Information)
• Who decides what? (Power)
• Who gets what? (Value)

LCMs reshape all three.

Information

In an LCM-shaped world, information is no longer discovered—it is surfaced. The model chooses what appears. This changes how knowledge is accessed and by whom. Those with the ability to shape training data, prompts, and model logic gain an epistemic monopoly. They decide what counts as “true enough.” The age of the search engine was biased, but at least it was plural. The age of the LCM is curated consciousness.

Decision-Making

Governments, corporations, and individuals are increasingly deferring to models for decision support. The frame of the answer becomes the frame of thought. If your assistant only shows you Option A and Option B, who decided what happened to Option C? LCMs don’t just inform—they govern perception.

Value

As attention becomes scarce and content becomes infinite, what becomes valuable is original cognition—the uncompressed spark of genuine thought. LCMs trained on mass data can remix endlessly, but only sovereign minds can create from source. Value will migrate away from extractive platforms to sovereign creators—if the infrastructure exists to recognise, reward, and protect originality.

The political economy of the future will not be built on labour or land. It will be built on awareness.

Redesigning Labour, Tax and Ownership

LCMs are dismantling the foundations of the industrial economy—not with fire, but with silence. The silence of tasks that no longer need doing. The quiet disappearance of roles once central to societal order.

In a world where:

• Coders generate software via prompts,
• Writers co-compose with models,
• Bureaucrats delegate paperwork to digital agents,
• Teachers become guides alongside AI co-learners—

…the economic assumptions underpinning work, tax, and value must be re-examined.

Labour, as we’ve known it, is fragmenting. Not disappearing—but becoming unrecognisable. The distinction between human and machine output blurs. What then do we tax? Time? Output? Thought? If an LCM helps you build a billion-dollar idea overnight, where and how is that value captured? Current systems are blind to cognitive leverage.

Ownership becomes the next battleground. If your vault-trained LCM generates code, prose, design or insight—who owns it? You? The model? The platform? Without a radical reframing of intellectual property, we risk living in a world where creativity is free, but its fruits are owned by those who control the pipes.

We are entering an era where the most valuable assets are not physical or financial—but cognitive and synthetic. And yet, the mechanisms of tax and reward remain rooted in last century’s metaphors.

It’s time to rewrite them.

The Danger of Corporate-Led Mind Feudalism

If the architecture of thought is the new territory, then Big Tech has already planted its flags.

OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic are not just building tools—they are building epistemic empires. These models determine what is seen, what is hidden, and what counts as knowledge. When your most intimate questions are answered by proprietary filters, you no longer think freely—you think through them.

This is not freedom. It is a new form of feudalism—mind feudalism—where your attention is the land, your queries are the rent, and your thoughts are harvested to enrich the model lords.

They decide:

• What knowledge gets preserved or deleted
• What styles of speech are amplified or silenced
• What cultural memory gets compressed into the model—and what is left out

This is not a hypothetical future. It is happening now.

In this regime, you do not own your tools, your data, or your output. You create inside a walled garden, and every keystroke becomes a training signal for someone else’s profit.

If we do not intervene—if we do not design alternatives—we will wake up in a civilisation where the architecture of thought is leased from a private entity. And that, no matter how beautiful the UI, is tyranny of the subtlest kind.

The battle for cognitive sovereignty has already begun.

IMAGN World’s Vision for Sovereign Thought

At IMAGN World, we’re not building a platform. We’re building an architecture of freedom.

In our world, every individual is a sovereign node. Your data is not harvested—it’s honoured. Your memory is not scraped—it’s stored in a personal vault. Your LCM is not a product—you are the product of your own sovereign cognition.

This is what we mean by a creator-first political economy.

Each person has:

• A data vault (your memory)
• A self-sovereign identity (your key)
• A personal LCM (your voice)

No more centralised models that homogenise thought. No more surveillance systems disguised as assistants. Instead, intelligence is local, private, and loyal to you alone.

Imagine:

• Drafting policies with your own vault-aware assistant, trained on your beliefs, your values, your context
• Receiving revenue based on attention to original cognition, not recycled content
• Remixing cultural works while preserving provenance, consent, and creative lineage

We don’t believe in artificial intelligence replacing human minds. We believe in Augmented Intuition—LCMs that reflect your inner voice back to you, amplified and respected.

The future of sovereignty isn’t geographic. It’s cognitive. And the new borders are not drawn on land, but in how thought is structured, shared, and secured.

This is not just possible. It’s necessary.

Practical Foundations and Technologies

A poetic vision means nothing without a practical stack. At IMAGN World, we are not gesturing at ideals—we are building the infrastructure to embody them.

1. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)

You begin not with an account, but a decentralised identity. Using protocols like DID and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), users authenticate without revealing sensitive data. Your identity is yours alone—verifiable, private, and portable.

2. Vault-Based Data Architecture

Your digital memory—files, prompts, posts, insights—lives in a personal data vault:

• IPFS for decentralised file storage
• Encrypted PostgreSQL for structured metadata
• Solid and WebACL for granular access control

No central server. No third-party surveillance. You own the vault. You set the permissions.

3. LCM Inference Comes to You

Rather than sending your data to a corporate model, the model comes to your vault. Local or edge inference using open-source LLMs (e.g. Mistral, Phi-3) means:

• No raw data ever leaves your device
• Fine-tuning can happen on your terms
• You build your own “mind” instead of borrowing one

4. Attention-Based Value Layer

Every interaction, insight, and remix can be tracked through cryptographic provenance. Cultural value is no longer mined—it is earned, logged, and distributed.

We are not trying to outscale Big Tech. We are designing a different civilisation—one where every person has their own mind-machine, and every thought builds trust instead of being sold.

From Vision to Action – A Call to Builders

This is not the time for spectatorship. The window is narrow. The stakes are existential. What we build now will define how thought itself is governed for generations.

If you are a founder, engineer, policymaker, designer, or poet—you are needed.

We don’t need more platforms. We need protocols.
We don’t need more apps. We need architecture.
We don’t need another revolution. We need a renaissance.

At IMAGN World, we are not asking you to fight the old. We are inviting you to design the new—from first principles, with reverence for autonomy and clarity of intent.

Here’s what you can build with us:

• Vault-aware assistants that know your context, your language, your learning path
• Micromodels that represent not mass opinion but individual insight
• Content provenance systems that reward original thought over shallow remix
• Trust infrastructures that verify without violating privacy

This is not just technology. It’s cultural memory encoded into machines. Every system you write is a vote for the kind of civilisation we wish to inhabit.

You don’t need permission. You need alignment.

So ask yourself: what kind of mind should the future have?
And whose voice should it speak in?

The tools are ready. The principles are clear. The moment is now.

Conclusion

We are not standing at the edge of a technical upgrade. We are standing at the edge of a civilisational rewrite.

LCMs are not just another innovation. They are the beginning of a new substrate—one that encodes memory, language, attention, and value into the very fabric of society. If we allow this substrate to be shaped by extraction, surveillance, and profit, we will inherit a world where thought is no longer free.

But if we design with intention—if we embed autonomy, reverence, and beauty into the code—we create the conditions for a different kind of world to emerge.

A world where:

• Every person owns their own mind-machine
• Thought is not harvested, but honoured
• Cognition becomes the foundation of value, trust, and governance

This is the proposal of IMAGN World:
To build a political economy not around capital, labour, or state power—but around sovereign cognition, conscious design, and shared meaning.

This is not idealism. It is realism for a new era.

Because a society does not become free when the chains fall off the body.
It becomes free when the architecture of thought is no longer owned by someone else.

That future is not promised.
But it is buildable.

And the ones who build it are not those who code the fastest.
They are the ones who remember what it means to be fully, deeply, radically human.