The Goal of One Human (of Eight Billion)

How Finn’s Procedure Monism explains what every human is really doing

By Bodhangkur

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1. The hidden rule that runs everything

Finn’s Procedure Monism begins with a simple but radical idea:
Everything that exists — atoms, stars, animals, humans — follows the same basic rule of operation.

This hidden rule, called the Universal Procedure (UP), isn’t a god, a being, or even a thing. It’s the set of natural laws or constraints that keep turning random, chaotic events into orderly, workable systems.

Each living or non-living thing — including you — is a local version of that Universal Procedure. You are not separate from the rule; you are the rule running locally.

2. What it means to be human in this view

A human, in Finn’s model, is a temporary, bounded “copy” of the Universal Procedure.
Your body and mind are an organised system that keeps making and remaking itself moment by moment — by taking in food, energy, information, and experience and turning them into coherent action.

You are real only as long as you keep that process going.
When the process stops — when you stop adapting, learning, or connecting — you begin to fade.

So the goal of being human cannot come from outside you; it’s built into the process itself.
Your task is to keep the system running well.

3. One human among eight billion

Now imagine yourself as one of eight billion humans — each one a local copy of the same universal rule, each trying to keep its process going.

You live inside a dense web of interactions: family, society, nature, machines, institutions. Every contact — every conversation, meal, decision, or emotional exchange — either supports your continued functioning or destabilises it.

You can think of your personal “score” in life as your Coherence Yield (CY):

CY = the number of interactions that help you keep running ÷ the total number of interactions.

When CY is high, your life runs smoothly. When it’s low, things fall apart.
Your natural goal is to raise your CY — to make more of your interactions work for you rather than against you.

4. How to raise your Coherence Yield

You do this in three ways:

1. Maintain your boundary.
Keep your body and mind in workable shape. Eat, rest, exercise, manage stress, protect your time and energy.

2. Improve your prediction.
Learn from experience. Notice patterns. Anticipate what’s coming. Adjust behaviour before chaos hits.

3. Stabilise your environment.
Help others function better, because their stability reduces your turbulence. When your surroundings work well, so do you.

This last point is crucial:
Helping others is not moral charity. It’s good systems maintenance.
Stable neighbours make a stable world, and a stable world keeps you real.

5. Local context, universal rule

The same logic applies to any scale — whether it’s a human, a company, a city, or a planet.
Each has its own conditions and boundaries, but the goal remains the same: to keep coherence alive.

For a human, that means health, learning, cooperation, creativity.
For a society, it means fairness, communication, and stability.
For an ecosystem, it means balance among species.
Different contexts, same rule.

6. Examples of the rule in action

· Personal:
A person who learns from mistakes, maintains good habits, and builds supportive relationships lives with less chaos. Their CY is high.

· Social:
A community that resolves conflicts quickly and invests in education keeps functioning smoothly. High CY again.

· Global:
A planet that balances technology with ecological limits stays habitable. It, too, maximises coherence.

Across all these examples, the pattern is identical: fit, adapt, stabilise.

7. What “the best live better” really means

From this perspective, Finn’s saying “The best live better” means:

Those who execute the Universal Procedure most smoothly —
who keep their own systems coherent while improving the world around them —
literally experience a better quality of life.

They face fewer breakdowns, less conflict, less waste.
They spend more time in flow, creation, and understanding.
Their lives feel lighter because their systems are working well.

Being “the best” has nothing to do with morality or competition.
It simply means functioning efficiently and gracefully in one’s local context.

8. The feeling of getting it right

When a human system runs smoothly — when body, mind, and environment align — the body signals success with feelings of happiness, contentment, or even bliss.

These pleasant states are not mysterious rewards from outside; they’re internal feedback from your system telling you, “You’re running well.”

Just as pain warns that something is wrong, joy confirms that you are functioning at your best.
In Finn’s terms, ānanda — bliss — is the felt proof that you are a perfect local copy of the Universal Procedure, even if only for a moment.

9. The logic in one sentence

Every human’s underlying goal is to stay real by keeping coherence alive — within themselves and around themselves.
Those who do this most successfully experience life as smoother, richer, and happier.
In Finn’s simple phrase:

The best live better — and they know it as joy.

10. Finn’s minims, human version

· Confinement defines:
Your limits make you real. Respect them.

· Assist to persist:
Helping others helps you stay alive.

· Create and/or die:
Keep producing coherence, or fade away.

· The best live better:
Those who run life’s rule most smoothly feel it as happiness.

Final reflection

To live, in Finn’s sense, is not to chase meaning but to run well.
A human who learns, adapts, connects, and creates is fulfilling the same universal purpose as a star that burns steadily or a tree that grows straight.

The technical version

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