The Ascetic Society of Internal Stimulus: From Cognitive Implants to Neuroethical Civilization

This paper develops the concept of an ascetic society of internal stimulus as the next evolutionary stage of human cognitive organization. Building on the author’s theoretical systems — Implant Cognitive Evaluation (ICE), Dominanta X, and ICE–N — the article proposes a social model in which hormonal satisfaction is generated by internal cognitive development rather than by external sensory or consumer stimuli. The framework describes a transition from heteronomous cognition, dominated by ideological and consumerist implants, toward a neuroethical civilization grounded in cognitive honesty, rational asceticism, and intrinsic motivation. Within this system, the human personality functions as a source of probabilities, generating possible trajectories of understanding and creative adaptation. Drawing upon neurocognitive research on reward prediction error (Friston, 2010; Schultz, 2016), intrinsic motivation (Deci & Ryan, 2000), and predictive coding (Clark, 2013; Seth, 2021), the study integrates biological, ethical, and epistemic dimensions of awareness. The ascetic society thus represents a phase in which material sufficiency and educational accessibility enable hormonal self-regulation through knowledge, curiosity, and cooperative rationality. The model concludes that civilization can evolve from control through external reward systems to self-regulation through understanding, realizing a form of collective cognition purified of ideological distortion and grounded in empirical truth.