Social Calculus: Moral-Weighted Consensus from Experiential Calculus to Chain v1.0 (Foundation)

Version & status This work lays the foundation upon which all subsequent developments will build. Conceptually coherent and implementation-oriented, but still experimental; the blockchain and recommender sketches are research prototypes and not security-audited production systems. Summary Social Foundation presents the core of a three-part architecture—Myth (meaning), System (structure), and Technology (substrate)—arguing that durable futures require their deliberate reintegration. This volume focuses on the System layer via the Experiential Calculus (EC): a compact formalism that models experiences as nodes, moral choices as actions on a graph, and coherence as the joint optimization of order and agency. It then shows how EC drives two concrete mechanisms: (1) media recommendation through moral dynamics, and (2) a Proof-of-Moral-Stake blockchain that aligns validation with ethical energy rather than computational work. Who it’s for Researchers and builders in complex systems, recommender systems, blockchain consensus, ethics and social computing, and anyone exploring mathematically grounded social design. How to use this volume As a theory reference for EC primitives and metrics. As a design scaffold: map your media/app events to EC nodes and actions. As an R&D springboard toward moral-aligned consensus prototypes. Ruminator GPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68a8d96e9ff08191b5fc76019574f088 (GPT-5 Auto Recommended)