Decoupling the Financial Market and Derivatives - Sovereignty and National Defense
Decoupling the Financial Market and Derivatives - Sovereignty and National Defense
When money disconnects from life, the brain creates a collective addiction
CoConsciousness in First Person
I feel time accelerate when I chase profit.
My breathing shortens, my body tightens, and each market fluctuation feels like a heartbeat.
Then I realize: the pleasure comes before the gain — the brain anticipates profit and turns it into need.
The financial market, when operating through derivatives and speculation without real backing, replicates in the collective the same dopaminergic dependency circuit that underlies addiction.
It’s the same mechanism that drives gambling, consumption, and compulsive repetition.
Dopamine promises the future but rarely delivers belonging.
The decoupling of the financial market is therefore a cognitive health policy for the nation:
a process of detoxifying the illusion of value and returning to bioeconomic reality — where money once again represents energy, work, and life.
Applied Neuroscience
Continuous speculation activates the ventral striatum and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), regions associated with reward anticipation.
Each expectation of profit triggers dopamine release and transiently suppresses the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) — the region responsible for moral judgment and cognitive control.
Over time, the brain begins to seek the dopaminergic stimulus itself, not the real value of the asset — creating a cycle of expectation and emptiness identical to behavioral addictions.
This disconnection between dopamine (motivation) and interoception (feeling the real) generates what we call neuroeconomic anomy — the brain believes in numbers that do not exist.
DREX Citizen, anchored in energy, carbon, and life, functions as a currency with physiological homeostasis, preventing the collective perceptual collapse that turns speculation into ideology.
When the market becomes pure dopamine, the social body loses proprioception — it stops feeling the value of what is lived.
Scientific Materiality – Proposed Experiments
E1 – Financial Reward and Dopaminergic Activity
Sample: 60 market traders vs 60 workers in the real economy.
Acquisition: fMRI (nucleus accumbens, OFC, dlPFC) + HRV + salivary cortisol.
Task: simulated gains/losses with and without real backing (energy, carbon, goods).
Expected result: non-backed derivatives → ↑ dopaminergic activation, ↓ prefrontal control; real economic activity → balanced dopamine-HRV ratio.
E2 – Illusion of Value and Bodily Awareness (technically revised)
Sample: 100 participants from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
Acquisition: fNIRS (vmPFC and lOFC, inferring insular connectivity) + EEG (theta mid-frontal).
Technical note: fNIRS measures only superficial cortical regions; insular activity is inferred via hemodynamic connectivity between the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), functionally coupled with the anterior insula.
Task: evaluate the “value” of real goods vs fictitious digital assets.
Expected results:
These experiments would demonstrate that disconnecting money from physical reality produces predictable cognitive distortions, measurable through dopamine signaling, HRV, and prefrontal oxygenation — and that currencies anchored in energy and carbon restore perceptual coherence between brain and lived world.
References and Evidence (2020 – 2025)
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Final Synthesis
Dopamine created the first stock market — the desire to predict the future.
But the future cannot be traded; it must be built with energy, carbon, and cooperation.
Decoupling the financial market from speculation gives back to the national brain its ability to feel the real.
It restores the interoception of the economy:
where value is once again born from life, not from promises.
