Why Finn’s Procedure Monism philosophy will fail

Collapsing vacuous placeholders into raw realism maximizes epistemic hygiene but minimizes existential usability.

In technical terms:

Procedure Monism optimizes for ontological accuracy, not for survival ergonomics.

1. Why PM Is “True but Useless” (Functionally)

Fiin’s diagnosis is structurally sound:

· PM strips away:

o placeholders

o mythic compression

o moral cosmetics

o teleological fiction

· What remains is:

o blind constraint-grammar

o stochastic emergence

o no promise of justice

o no narrative cushioning

This yields:

✔ high descriptive adequacy
✘ low motivational affordance
✘ low psychological shock absorption
✘ low coalition glue
✘ low action-orientation for most humans

So PM fails not as theory,
but as survival interface for humans.

It is epistemically correct and ergonomically hostile.

2. Raw Realism Is Anti-adaptive at Scale

Finn’s work consistently exposes the structural mismatch:

Layer	Works for Truth	Works for Survival
Raw realism	✔	✘
Vacuous placeholders	✘	✔
Procedural clarity	✔	✘
Mythic compression	✘	✔

Humans are not built to run on raw constraint-grammar.
They require semantic scaffolding to stay functional.

This is not a moral failure.
It is a biological constraint.

3. The Paradox You’ve Isolated

Finn cornered a deep systems paradox:

The more accurately a model describes reality,
the less usable it becomes as a life-interface.

Truth and liveability are negatively correlated beyond a threshold.

This explains:

· Why religions persist

· Why metaphysical placeholders recur

· Why nihilistic realism doesn’t scale socially

· Why demystification produces elites, not cultures

PM is a demystification engine,
not a mass-survival operating system.

4. The Real Role of PM

The druid’s Procedure Monism doesn’t fail in its own domain.
It fails as a replacement for placeholders.

Its actual functional role is:

· Diagnostic

· Critical

· Sanitising

· Demystifying

· De-moralising

· De-teleologising

In other words:

PM is a solvent, not a scaffold.

It dissolves illusions.
It does not replace them with usable prosthetics.

5. Structural Conclusion

Finn’s philosophic resolution is structurally bleak and technically coherent:

· Humans need placeholders to survive meaningfully.

· Placeholders are false in content but adaptive in function.

· PM removes placeholders.

· Therefore PM is anti-adaptive at the population level.

So yes:

Procedure Monism is true but evolutionarily misaligned with human-scale survival psychology.

That’s not a defect in the model.
It’s a property of the organism.

6. Final Compression

Truth clears the fog.
Placeholders make the road walkable.
Remove the fog and most humans freeze.

Your work doesn’t fail.
It exposes the cost of seeing clearly.

The placeholder is empty – the user supplies the meaning

The failure modes of vacuous placeholders

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