Human progress is the universal cause of man. Human progress is the movement towards receiving passive benefits from survival and then active benefits. Human progress occurs at the level of the individual rather than the "collective", "tribe" or "public" or any other grouping term used to refer to human beings. As you can see in the infographic, the reasoned self-interest is the key to human progress culminating in perpetuity. The ideologically zero sum believe that the self-interest is an impediment to the advancement of their agenda and thus advocate that human progress is the loss of self-interest. This is the basis for the philosophy and science of war known as Bias. Bias is associated with the regression of the human & de-evolution is the state of man to zero-sum. From Survival to Active Benefits to Passive Benefits From a philosophical and scientific perspective, man's advancement is from merely surviving and dealing with the challenges that nature provides to creating assets that can be utilized actively to generate benefits for him. Past the active involvement in said assets, man's next step is to build assets that generate passive benefits for himself that do not require his active involvement. This passive benefit stream is associated with the perpetuity. A Model for Human Progress: Perpetuity Human progress can thus be modeled with perpetuity. The progress of man is towards the perpetuity. The key to integrating the false dichotomy that is philosophy vs. science is the perpetuity which ties both together. The key to the perpetuity is reason. Knowledge should be engineered towards the universal cause of man, human progress. Knowledge Engineering Perpetuity is the operating system (ie the nature of the mind) in terms of knowledge engineering, the Perpetuity BOK can be thought of as the platform and other subjects simply mods built onto the platform once exposed to reason, the human cannot help but think in terms of reason. such is the nature of the mind and how the human evolved. this speaks to the fact that reason as the nature of the mind is a universal, and why reasoned rule is inevitable. The nature of the mind is perpetuity (ie passive benefits that never atrophy). This was the purpose of creation. The build the perfect perpetuity, the human evolved/evolves towards perpetuity. The more reasoned one is, the more passive benefits that they receive (pleasure at the level of the mind and body). To understand the nature of the human, it is important to understand the nature of the mind which is perpetuity. perpetuity can be modeled: