# Metasystem of progress

_Mykyta Zagamula; edited with AI assistance · updated 2026-09-13_

_Concept · https://synchronism.top/en/glossary/metasystem/_

**A hypothetical diagnostic infrastructure that continuously sees civilisation as a whole, identifies bottlenecks, and redirects people and resources towards them.**

Its functions: diagnosing the state of fields of knowledge, finding bottlenecks, creating new research areas at the intersections of disciplines, redistributing funding, building career paths, and checking its own results.

This is the most ambitious and most distant part of the synchronist programme. At the present stage it is a description of a goal, not a project: we have neither a measurement methodology nor institutions.

## What is missing here

- **Question** (Generalist) — Which single function of such a system could be tested on a small scale first, and what would count as evidence that it works?

## Next

- Idea: Progress as an uneven system — https://synchronism.top/en/frame/progress/
- Concept: Reflexive civilization — https://synchronism.top/en/glossary/reflexive/
- Concept: Bottleneck — https://synchronism.top/en/glossary/bottleneck/

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