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From Over-Human to Complete Human Nietzsche’s Incomplete Thought Experiment and Finn’s
Law of Procedural Completion By Bodhangkur 1. Introduction Nietzsche’s
notion of the Übermensch remains one of philosophy’s most potent but
least completed metaphors. It gestures toward an overcoming of the “merely
human,” yet it never specifies what this overcoming would yield once
achieved. The Übermensch is a horizon, not a realized state, suspended
between prophecy and possibility. By contrast, the modern druid Finn’s Procedure
Monism completes Nietzsche’s gesture by grounding it in a precise model
of emergence. In Finn’s system, every emergent—whether photon, cell, or
human—evolves toward functional maturity, defined as internal equilibrium and
self-regulation. What Nietzsche imagined as the “over-human,” Finn formalizes
as the complete, i.e. mature, autonomous unit of emergence. This
essay contrasts Nietzsche’s incomplete thought experiment with Finn’s
completed one, showing that the Übermensch is best understood as an
immature intuition of the same principle that Finn formulates rigorously: the
maturation of any emergent to the point of procedural autonomy. 2. Nietzsche’s Incomplete Trajectory a) The Invention of the Horizon In Thus
Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche proclaims, “Man is a rope stretched between
the animal and the Übermensch—a rope over an abyss.” The statement defines
humanity not as an essence but as a process of self-overcoming. Yet Nietzsche
never articulates what happens after the rope has been crossed. His
philosophy thrives on tension—the agon between herd and creator, life and
decadence—but cannot imagine equilibrium without relapse into stasis. b) Dependency on Opposition The Übermensch
depends on what it negates: the herd, the priest, the “last man.” Without
that contrast, Nietzsche’s system loses its motor. The Übermensch
cannot become universal because his distinctiveness relies on rarity.
Nietzsche’s world, driven by the will to power, can only perpetuate
difference; it cannot resolve it. Thus, his “goal” remains necessarily
unreachable. c) The Problem of Finality Were all
humans to achieve Übermensch status, the hierarchy that sustains
Nietzsche’s metaphysics of struggle would collapse. The creative friction
that defines his ethics would dissolve into a universal immanence—an anarchy
of autonomous beings. Nietzsche intuited this danger and therefore left
his figure suspended, mythic, and incomplete. 3. Finn’s Completion of the Thought Experiment a) From Value-Creation to Procedural Function Finn’s Procedure
Monism reframes the human not as a rope but as a local iteration of
the Universal Procedure (UP)—a set of rules that generate real, bounded
identities out of random energy differentials. Every emergent functions as a temporary, adaptive algorithm striving
toward local equilibrium. In this
framework, the Übermensch’s defining traits—autonomy, creativity,
internal regulation—are no longer poetic metaphors but necessary stages of
functional development. The “creator of values” becomes the self-calibrating
emergent, operating at maximal stability. b) Maturity as Completion Where
Nietzsche envisions transcendence, Finn identifies completion. The
mature emergent has no need to overcome; it functions perfectly because it
fully runs and so embodies its procedural rule-set.
What Nietzsche saw as “beyond man” is, in Finn’s terms, simply the human
operating at full (i.e. ‘super’) capacity: a perfectly tuned local machine
that sustains equilibrium without external control. Thus,
Finn translates Nietzsche’s teleological aspiration into an ontological
function. Übermensch → Superb Mensch → Completed
Emergent. c) The Law of Procedural Identity Finn’s
“Law of Procedural Identity” states that each emergent’s
purpose is to sustain equilibrium through adaptive iteration. A mammal, a
cell, or a star all perform this task at their scale. The fully mature adult
human—Nietzsche’s dreamed Übermensch—is the conscious expression of
this universal function. It requires no transcendent justification, no
metaphysical “beyond.” Its perfection lies in operational stability, not as
such in victory over others. 4. Comparative Logic: Overcoming vs. Completion
Nietzsche’s
system remains trapped in the romantic poetics of tension; Finn’s system
converts tension into function. For Nietzsche, maturity would terminate
struggle, hence meaning. For Finn, maturity is precisely the condition under
which struggle has become balanced feedback—a rhythmic oscillation of
adaptation rather than an existential battle. 5. Illustrative Examples a) The Child Nietzsche
speaks of three metamorphoses of spirit: camel, lion, and child. The child is
his symbol of creative innocence, but the metaphor remains mythic. In Finn’s
model, the child literally represents the emergent in its learning-phase—testing
constraints, forming procedural rules. The adult, once matured, achieves the
self-regulation Nietzsche left unnamed. b) The Artist and the Engineer Nietzsche’s
Übermensch is an artist of values, an existential creator. Finn’s
complete emergent merges artist and engineer: the system that designs and
maintains itself. In practice, the difference marks the passage from expressive
to functional creativity. c) The Ecosystem An
ecosystem achieves temporary stability when each component self-regulates
within its constraints. Finn’s “mature human” behaves analogously: no longer
parasitic or dependent on external moral codes, it operates as a local
ecological equilibrium—autonomous yet interconnected. 6. The Final Paradox: When All Are Complete If
Nietzsche’s prophecy were fulfilled and all humans became autonomous
creators, his distinction between over- and under-human would vanish. The
world would not collapse into chaos but stabilize into an anarchy of
maturity—a field of self-governing systems, each perfectly executing its
own procedure. Finn’s
model not only allows but predicts this: once every emergent achieves its
functional autonomy, the Universal Procedure sustains itself through infinite
local self-regulations. The final state is not transcendent unity but distributed
perfection (as in Indra’s Net)—each node at equilibrium, the whole
in dynamic stability. 7. Conclusion Nietzsche’s
Übermensch is the poetic sketch of a principle he could not articulate
in procedural terms. His vision remains mythic because his ontology remained
dualistic: struggle without closure, creation without system. Finn’s Procedure
Monism completes this thought experiment by removing its transcendental
scaffolding. What Nietzsche called “beyond man” becomes, under Finn’s law, the
mature human—one who functions as a perfect iteration of the universal
process of emergence. Thus,
Nietzsche’s open horizon folds back into the earth. The Übermensch is
revealed not as a god or a mutant but as the adult human functioning at
full capacity, the self-regulating, self-adapting, autonomous emergent—not
over man, but finally man. From the ‘Death of God’ to the Birth
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