The Office of Reason mimics at scale the function of our reasoning mind. Its duty is to think through the issues before it to consider impacts and how they could be implemented. This is a major analysis function on the proposal. The office must break the proposal down to its component parts and understand how it works in order to effectively reason out how it should be implemented.

Proposals are written by the general public and are written in the common language. The Office of Reason converts them to the legislative language used by the nation. It must take great care to ensure the language and implementation is consistent with the nation's constitution and laws and that no errors are introduced. All legislation must be clear in language, readability, and intent. There must not be any double-speak, excessively long sentences, or confusing sentences. There must not be any back doors or loopholes that can be exploited. There must not be any vague or deliberately open-ended language either.

The Office of Reason tries to figure out the why and how of the proposal. It must index the proposal against relevant thoughts, attach information about those thoughts to the proposal, and determine how the proposal contributes to the thought or knowledge about the thought.

An objective of the Office of Reason is to try to build out the entirety of a particular thought so that balanced and full-spectrum policies can be achieved. Where the balancing is successful, the Office of Reason can balance the proposal according to the path chosen by the Council of Witness. For example, if the Council decides that it wants to fix policy at two-thirds conservative, one third-liberal, then the Office of Reason can adjust the disposition of the proposal to be in line with that directive. Should the Council later change direction to be more liberal for a time, the Office of Reason can adjust new proposals to fit this directive. It can only do this, however, if it has a full understanding of the thought behind the proposal. Where it is unable to determine the thought, aim, or how the policy contributes, the Office of Reason must not execute the balancing function. This balancing function allows the nation to consciously calibrate itself according to its current location in time and space and thereby avoid mass confusion and policies that would send it off a cliff into civil war.

The Office of Reason answers and reports to the Council of Witness. It receives proposals from the Office of Priorities, processes them in the order they are received, and passes them along to the Office of Rightness, creating a circuit.

The Office of Reason may contact the Office of Feeling, Sensing, Perception, and Data for information, knowledge, and data with regards to how things work and it may ask questions of the Office, but it may not direct the Office of Feeling, Sensing, Perception, and Data in any way.

Balanced proposals that are accepted into legislation may be forwarded to the Office of Expression for its review.

A Directive of Motive is a message from the Council of Witness to the Office of Reason. This is analagous to you using your motive faculty to access your reasoning mind.

The Directive is again another inquiry and it tries to answer the questions "How does it work? Why does it work? What is the ruling thought? What other thoughts are in play? What would this look like if it were balanced? What would this look like if it were in a certain orientation?" It asks the Office of Reasoning to assist Council with thinking through and working out a hard problem or proposal. "What is the reasoning or motive behind the thing we're investigating?"

The Office of Reason gets the tough questions and the Directive of Motive signals that the question is from Council. I leave it to the Office to determine whether or not it wants to prioritize the question. This Office has very difficult thinking work to do and it will take a long time to answer any particular question.

When an answer is returned, it should contain with it a report of the relevant thoughts involved and a possibility analysis of where things currently stand and could go.