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Apūrva, Karmic Residue, and Rebirth By the druid Finn The druid reconstructs the classical Indian doctrines
of apūrva, karma, and rebirth as components of
a procedural systems ontology rather than as moral or religious metaphysics. Apūrva, traditionally understood as an unseen
potency generated by action, is reinterpreted as stored performance residue:
a deferred causal state that records incomplete, conflicted, or misaligned
execution within a universal generative system. Karma, on this account, is
not ethical bookkeeping but the persistence of such unfinished execution
states. What binds is not sin or guilt, but incompletion. Reality is modelled as a distributed generating machine
(ṛta, or RITA) whose optimal operation
depends on the coherent performance of its local components. Each emergent—jīva, ātman, or
agent—is understood as a local execution instance of this universal
procedure. When execution is imperfect, internal drag and contradiction
generate residue. This residue cannot be ignored or deleted by the system; it
must be processed. The persistence of residue therefore necessitates
re-instantiation. Rebirth is thus understood as retry logic rather than
moral recompense. It’s the technical requirement to reconfigure and reinsert
underperforming components until coherent execution is achieved. New lives
are not repetitions of a personal self, but new configurations designed to
resolve stored execution states. What persists across births is not identity,
but unfinished work (i.e. karmic residue). Suffering and reward are reinterpreted as system-level
feedback rather than divine punishment or blessing. Pain reflects performance
stress arising from misalignment, while ease and stability reflect good fit
within the system’s constraints. Liberation (mokṣa)
is not escape to another realm but successful completion: the achievement of
zero stored residue. Classical religious practices such as yajña, ṛṇānubandha,
and purification rites are reinterpreted as ancient load-management and reset
protocols, designed to redistribute, offload, or symbolically clear
accumulated residue when local execution alone proves insufficient. In the druid Finn’s understanding, karma, rebirth, and
liberation emerge not as theological doctrines but as necessary features of
any distributed generative system. The universe retries (its iterations) until the
run is clean. Ṛta
as Universal Generating Machine Apūrva,
Karmic Residue, and Rebirth. Adv. The druid Finn also said: |