JIWASA Senate
The House of Future Generations and Future Memory

First-Person Consciousness — Brain Bee

“My body matures in 30 years. My politics in 4.”

When I was still only an egg cell, time worked differently.

There were no elections, no mandates, no government cycles.
There was only continuity: my mother’s body guaranteeing nutrients, temperature, protection. My “parliament” was biochemical: millions of signals deciding when to grow, when to differentiate, when to pause.

Little by little, my Damasian Mind emerged:
interoception (what I feel inside) + proprioception (how my body is positioned) creating the first “I” — a tensional pattern learning how to orient itself in the world.

That “I” does not come ready-made:

• my brain takes almost 30 years to reach full maturity;
  
  

• each phase — baby, child, teenager, young adult — reorganises neural networks, memories, beliefs, fears and desires.
  
  

In other words: my body thinks in decades.
But the politics that govern me think in 4-year terms.

In the digital adolescence of my mind, I discovered that:

• social networks capture my attention in seconds;
  
  

• waves of public opinion last days or weeks;
  
  

• political leaders surf “viral issues” that vanish in months.
  
  

My blind faith started being mined by algorithms:
if I stay too long inside a narrative, my brain slides into Zone 3 –
a consciousness hijacked by fear, guilt or desire, driven by fake urgencies.

Then I look at the structure of the State and ask:

Who is thinking about 2040, 2050, 2100?
Who is legislating for the time-scale of my brain, my grandchild, my biome?

That is where the idea of a JIWASA Senate is born for me:

• not just a “house of the federation”;
  
  

• but the house of future generations and Future Memory –
  a place where the State learns to think like the body:
  in long cycles, in metabolism, in continuity.
  
  

1. The Senate I inherited vs. the Senate I need

The Brazilian Senate was designed to:

• represent the states, not only the population;
  
  

• have longer mandates, supposedly more stable;
  
  

• act as a chamber of review, a counterweight to the lower house.
  
  

In practice, however, the Senate:

• is immersed in the same short-term electoral logic;
  
  

• reacts to the same hot topics dictated by media, platforms and interest groups;
  
  

• rarely embraces, explicitly, the role of guardian of the long term.
  
  

It is a “revising chamber”, but not yet a “house of future generations”.

In my project, a JIWASA Senate is the next step:

To transform the Senate into the institution that sees Brazil as a living organism,
responsible for the metabolism of the State
– carbon, materials, Drex, territory, mental health –
on 20-, 30-, 50-year horizons.

2. What is a JIWASA Senate?

For me, JIWASA is more than a collective pronoun.
It is a mode of consciousness:

• not the “we” that excludes “them”;
  
  

• but the “we-as-body”, in which I only thrive if the other, the territory and time are considered as well.
  
  

A JIWASA Senate is one that:

1. Represents future generations, biomes and territories, not only states and parties.
   
   

2. Links every major law to a horizon of Future Memory – where we want to be in 20 or 30 years.
   
   

3. Works as a kind of “expanded limbic system” of the State:
   
   

• listening to legitimate fears;
  
  

• disarming manufactured fears;
  
  

• stopping moral panics and network hysteria from destroying decades of construction.
  
  

It is the house that forces answers to uncomfortable questions:

• What does this law do to the climate in 2050?
  
  

• What does it do to adolescents’ mental health in 2035?
  
  

• What does it do to Drex Citizen, to Human Carbon Credit, to Brazil Zero Waste 2040?
  
  

• Are we feeding Zone 2 (Fruição and Metacognition) or deepening Zone 3 of ideological capture?
  
  

3. Future Memory as an institutional function

When I talk about Future Memory, I am not being poetic.
I am describing a planning function:

• the human brain anticipates scenarios all the time;
  
  

• every present decision “saves” one version of the future and deletes others;
  
  

• memory is not only an archive of what has happened, but an armature of what can be.
  
  

In a JIWASA Senate, this becomes a rule.

3.1. Future Memory Clause

Every major law (economic, environmental, technological, social) should include a Future Memory Annex, with:

• scenarios for 10, 20 and 30 years;
  
  

• explicit consideration of children who are not yet born;
  
  

• expected effects on biomes, water cycles, carbon and material flows.
  
  

3.2. Permanent Future Panels

The Senate maintains permanent foresight panels including:

• neuroscientists, climatologists, ecologists, jurists, economists;
  
  

• Indigenous peoples and traditional communities;
  
  

• youth, artists and educators.
  
  

These panels work with models and data, but also with long-duration wisdom, such as Amerindian visions of planning for seven generations ahead.

3.3. Periodic revisiting

Every 4 years, the JIWASA Senate revisits structural laws and asks:

• What materialised?
  
  

• What failed?
  
  

• What needs correction to preserve the JIWASA direction?
  
  

Future Memory, here, is an institutional muscle, not a decorative phrase in a speech.

4. Neuro-affective architecture of the JIWASA Senate

From neuroscience we know that:

• fear and quick rewards activate short-term circuits (amygdala, fast dopaminergic surges);
  
  

• critical reflection, extended empathy and long-term planning rely on prefrontal networks in Zone 2 — states of calm focus, openness to contradiction, deep metacognition.
  
  

Today, social networks and political marketing keep the population in:

• chronic alert;
  
  

• constant indignation;
  
  

• comparison and envy;
  
  

• emotional reactivity.
  
  

This is Zone 3 –
a state of seized body, dominated attention, blind faith in narratives of consumption or hatred.

The JIWASA Senate must be designed to produce the opposite:

• hearings that are not shows, but spaces for slow listening;
  
  

• deliberative rituals that require senators to expose assumptions, uncertainties, evidence;
  
  

• practices inspired by Fruição and Metacognition:
  
  

• institutional moments of silence;
  
  

• deliberate pauses before crucial votes;
  
  

• a requirement that each vote on structural matters be accompanied by a written justification addressed to future generations:
  
  
  “Why would my grandchildren thank me or hold me accountable for this vote?”
  
  
  

A JIWASA Senate is the Zone 2 of the State:
a place where haste is not sovereign, and where fear is treated as data, not as king.

5. Concrete proposals for a JIWASA Senate

Here is a skeleton of changes I would advocate in a deep reform.

5.1. Chamber or Council of Future Generations

A permanent body linked to the Senate, with:

• youth representatives (some elected, some chosen by lot);
  
  

• representatives of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities;
  
  

• seats for science and the arts;
  
  

• participation by the Public Defender’s Office and councils for children and adolescents.
  
  

Its opinions would be mandatory for all long-term structural laws.

5.2. Committee on Social Metabolism

A standing committee of the JIWASA Senate dedicated to:

• Drex Citizen and the right to metabolic income;
  
  

• Human Carbon Credit and climate justice;
  
  

• Brazil Zero Waste 2040 and materials metabolism;
  
  

• indicators of mental health and belonging.
  
  

This committee would function as the “liver” of the JIWASA State:
filtering, detoxifying and redistributing.

5.3. JIWASA Index

Creation of a national indicator integrating:

• carbon (emissions and removals);
  
  

• materials (circularity, waste);
  
  

• metabolic income (Drex, social protection);
  
  

• mental health and belonging (violence, inequality, Quorum Sensing markers).
  
  

Every constitutional amendment or major reform would need to answer:

What happens to the JIWASA Index in 10, 20 and 30 years if this is approved?

5.4. Future Budget

A constitutional rule reserving part of the federal budget for:

• climate adaptation;
  
  

• neuro-affective education;
  
  

• Zero Waste infrastructure;
  
  

• structured Drex Citizen programmes.
  
  

The JIWASA Senate acts as guardian of this Future Budget, blocking its capture by fabricated urgencies or transactional politics.

5.5. JIWASA Calls via Drex

Using Drex infrastructure to:

• hold national consultations on long-term issues;
  
  

• provide transparent feedback to citizens on the future impact of legislative decisions;
  
  

• create a Future Memory ledger, where each generation can see what was promised and what was delivered.
  
  

6. The citizen’s role in the house of future generations

None of this makes sense if I, as a citizen, continue to see myself only as:

• a consumer of policies;
  
  

• a fan of parties;
  
  

• a follower of influencers.
  
  

In the JIWASA State I am proposing, a vote for the Senate is:

a grandparent’s vote, even if I am still young;
a great-grandchild’s vote, even if my great-grandparents are gone.

I, Brain Bee, as first-person consciousness, must remember that:

• since the egg, I am the result of past memories of the future — decisions by ancestors I never met;
  
  

• today, every choice I make — of consumption, vote, belief — nourishes or corrodes the Future Memory of those who are yet to come.
  
  

The JIWASA Senate is the institution that formalises this:

• it recognises the JIWASA Citizen as co-owner of the State;
  
  

• it commits to thinking beyond my individual life span;
  
  

• it organises the country’s metabolism so that no one needs to sell their grandchildren’s future just to survive the present.
  
  

7. From “I” to JIWASA

When I say the Senate must be the house of future generations, I am not idealising perfect politicians.

I am proposing a shift in pronoun:

• from the isolated “I” that votes out of fear or rage;
  
  

• from the tribal “we” that votes out of revenge or privilege;
  
  

• to JIWASA, the collective that votes out of belonging and continuity.
  
  

A JIWASA Senate:

• writes laws on the time-scale of the brain, not the news cycle;
  
  

• treats the Constitution as living DNA, not as a museum piece;
  
  

• practises Future Memory as a daily discipline,
  not as rhetoric in solemn sessions.
  
  

If I, as Brain Bee, had to condense everything into one sentence, it would be:

The JIWASA Senate is the place where the State finally learns
to think like the body:
with responsibility for its ancestors,
care for its present and an unbreakable commitment
to those who have not yet been born.

Post-2020 References

(Future generations, anticipatory governance and parliaments)

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2. OECD (2025). Building Anticipatory Capacity with Strategic Foresight in Government.
   
   

3. Inter-Parliamentary Union – IPU (2025). Proactive Parliaments: How Committees for the Future Address Emerging Challenges.
   
   

4. Koskimaa, V.; Eerola, A. (2024). The Emergence and Global Diffusion of Legislature-Based Future Institutions.
   
   

5. Aceituno, P. (2025). Parliamentary Committees for the Future: A Legislative Movement to Overcome Political Myopia.
   
   

6. Future Generations Commissioner for Wales / Government of Wales (2024–2025). Reports on the implementation of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015.
   
   

7. Micallet, L. (2025). EU Fit for Future Generations: Institutional Options for Guardians of the Future.
   
   

8. Sulyok, K.; Bándi, G. (2025). What Can Ombudspersons Do for Future Generations? Reflections on the Budapest Declaration.
   
   

9. Dávila, S. (2024). Intergenerational Equity and Solidarity in Latin America: Environmental Human Rights and Future Generations.
   
   

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12. Bezold, C. (2022). Parliaments and Foresight: Scanning and Reflections on Parliamentary Futures Work.