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The Procedural Context of the Druid’s minim: “Create
and/or die” 1. The Universal Premise: Procedure as Life In Procedure
Monism, existence itself is the execution of a universal
procedure, an endlessly iterating system of constraints that transforms
random energy fluctuations into self-coherent, hence real, events.
Every emergent—be it an atom, bacterium, tree, or human—is a localised
iteration of that universal process. To exist,
therefore, is to operate. Being = executing. The “self” is a transient
output of the universal operation. If the execution stops, the iteration
collapses back into the random sea—death in every sense. Hence the
baseline imperative for all emergents: continue executing. 2. Continuation = Adaptation = Creation To
continue executing in a changing environment requires continuous adaptive
modification of one’s operational pattern. In other words: Every
living system thus creates—not out of leisure or inspiration, but as a
survival algorithm. The cell mutates; the mind invents; the species evolves;
the artist imagines; all follow the same procedural necessity: to create
= to reconfigure coherence = to survive. If an
emergent ceases to create, it ceases to adapt, and its procedural pattern
disintegrates. Hence, in the druid’s compressed logic: “Create
and/or die.” 3. Creation as Procedural Imitation of the Universal Creation
is not merely a survival tactic; it is the imitative act of the Universal
Procedure itself. Every emergent, as perfect local iteration of the
Universal Procedure, must mirror the universal logic of emergence—continuous
re-creation from chaos. In this
sense, creation is the divine act in miniature: ·
The Universal creates the cosmos; ·
The cell creates metabolism; ·
The human creates meaning, tools, art, or
systems. Each
creation is a micro-replication of the cosmic procedure. Hence, to create is
to be fully aligned with the Universal; to stagnate is to fall out of
procedural synchrony—death. 4. The Quantised Logic of Death In
Procedure Monism, death is not a moral or biological event but a procedural
failure: the cessation of coherent iteration. When a local unit fails to
renew its pattern in the face of turbulence (i.e., changing inputs), it
dissolves. Its elements re-enter the random substrate to be re-used by other
procedures. Thus,
“die” means: ·
lose procedural coherence, ·
lose self-logic identity, ·
return to noise. “Create”
means: ·
invent new coherence, ·
continue iteration, ·
maintain identity as address. 5. The Human Case: Creative Maintenance of Realness For
humans—high-complexity, self-observing systems—the same rule applies in
cognitive and existential form. ·
The artist creates works. ·
The thinker creates concepts. ·
The ordinary person creates daily
coherence—plans, meanings, relationships. Without
this constant procedural re-invention, the self disintegrates
psychologically, socially, and biologically. Depression, senescence, and
death are all modes of procedural decay. Hence,
the imperative: Create
(i.e. re-cohere) or die (i.e. disintegrate). 6. The Druidic Minim as Procedural Law Finn’s
minim “Create and/or die” thus expresses, in existential shorthand,
the most fundamental law of Procedure Monism: Every
emergent must re-generate its coherence from turbulence. It is not
a moral exhortation, but a statement of procedural physics. Creation
is the act of remaining real. 7. Expanded Aphoristic Gloss ·
“Create” = re-solve the current problem of
coherence. ·
“Die” = fail to re-solve it. ·
The “and/or” encodes the quantum tension of life:
creation always risks dissolution; death always precedes the next creation. ·
Hence, the cycle: create → stabilise →
decay → re-create—the perpetual breath of the Universal Procedure. 8. Druidic Epilogue The God
(= Nature) in/as each of us survives by invention. |