The Life-Value Framework: A Roadmap for Global Systemic Solvency | Gemini & NotebookLM

This paper introduces The Life-Value Framework, a diagnostic and policy architecture designed to address the growing misalignment between modern economic governance and the biological foundations of human life. Contemporary institutions largely operate according to a “money-sequence” logic in which financial growth is treated as the primary indicator of success, even when ecological systems, social infrastructure, and human well-being deteriorate. Drawing on John McMurtry’s Life-Value Onto-Axiology and Johan Galtung’s peace research, the framework proposes a Life-Value Metric that evaluates policies according to whether they expand or diminish the inclusive range of human thought, feeling, and action. Structural violence, war economies, and the erosion of public infrastructure are interpreted as measurable forms of systemic disvalue. The paper further proposes the use of AI-assisted impartial auditing to evaluate policies according to life-value parameters and universal life necessities. A staged roadmap toward planetary solvency is outlined, emphasizing investment in the civil commons and regenerative systems capable of sustaining long-term human flourishing.

Life-Value Onto-Axiology and the Global Civil Commons | NotebookLM

In this collection of essays, Professor John McMurtry introduces life-value onto-axiology, a philosophical framework that prioritizes objective human life necessities over the abstractions of traditional economic and justice theories. He argues that the modern global order is dominated by a life-blind corporate rights system that treats money-profit as an end in itself, leading to the systematic destruction of environmental and social support systems. McMurtry identifies the civil commons—the shared social structures ensuring universal access to life goods—as the essential ground for authentic human evolution and social justice. By defining legitimate rights based on whether they enable or disable vital life capacities, the text seeks to re-ground human reason in the protection of the life-host. Ultimately, the author calls for a shift toward a life-coherent rationality where economic success is measured by the flourishing of living beings rather than the accumulation of private capital.

Profit from Harm: Structural Violence, Systemic Betrayal, and the Life-Value Turn | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

This paper addresses the paradox that disabling life is often more profitable than enabling it. Drawing on a genealogical analysis of enclosure, colonial extraction, industrial throughput, neoliberal financialization, and digital enclosures, it demonstrates how institutional design has structurally tuned profitability toward harm. These arrangements exemplify what Johan Galtung termed structural violence and what we identify as systemic betrayal: the failure of institutions chartered to protect life to fulfill their mandate.

To diagnose and counter these dynamics, the paper advances John McMurtry’s Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA) as a normative compass, grounding value in the enabling and extension of universal life necessities (ULNs). It complements this with the TATi–triality framework, a symbolic diagnostic grammar that operationalizes coherence by testing whether policies and institutions sustain care (homeodynamics), adaptive pattern (morphodynamics), and purposive meaning (teleodynamics).

Building on these diagnostics, the paper proposes six design levers — metric reform, fiduciary and charter redesign, ownership and finance transformation, chokepoint reduction, transparency and traceability, and restoration of life-time — that can realign profitability with the enabling of life. The conclusion argues for a civilizational coherence turn, in which profit no longer flows from disabling life but from structurally embedding care, resilience, and flourishing.

Reclaiming Coherence: Aligning Policy, Systems, and Values with the Requirements of Life | ChatGPT5 & NotebookLM

Humanity stands at a civilizational threshold. Climate disruption, biodiversity collapse, chronic disease, inequality, and institutional fragmentation appear as separate crises, yet they share a common root: our collective systems — economic, political, cultural — have become disconnected from the requirements of life.

Drawing on philosopher John McMurtry’s framework of Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), this white paper reframes the current “polycrisis” as a systemic pathology of value. McMurtry’s distinction between the money-sequence of value (M → M′) and the life-sequence of value (L → M-of-L → L¹) illuminates why GDP-driven growth models systematically erode the life-capital — ecosystems, relationships, infrastructures — upon which human flourishing depends.

At the heart of the framework lies the Primary Axiom of Value:

X is of value if and only if, and to the extent that, it consists in or enables
more coherently inclusive thought, feeling, and action.

Using this axiom, we define seven universal life necessities — breathable air, potable water, nutritive food, protective shelter, healthy environmental conditions, caring relationships, and meaningful participation — as the non-negotiable ground of value. Systems that sustain these necessities are life-coherent; those that undermine them generate systemic incoherence and eventual collapse.

The paper proposes life-coherent metrics, civil commons architectures, and regenerative policy pathways that realign governance, economies, and technologies with the conditions that enable life to flourish. It integrates insights from planetary boundaries, wellbeing economics, public health, and Indigenous stewardship to provide a unifying framework for action.

When systems serve life, they thrive.
When systems exploit life, they fail.

This paper invites policymakers, academics, and citizens alike to adopt a universal compass for navigating the future:
Does this decision sustain and enrich the conditions of life — or diminish them?