What Nature Systems Theory Means

By the Druid Finn

Nature Systems Theory (NST) is a procedural monist ontology that proposes:

All real, identifiable phenomena—including matter, life, consciousness, identity—are emergent outputs of a single universal procedure operating through quantised, serial interactions of discrete energy packets.

In simpler terms:

· Reality is not a substance, essence, or divine ground—but a process.

· This process is discontinuous—not flowing smoothly, but proceeding in steps, like frames in a film, or code executing line by line.

· Each step, or contact-event, produces a moment of realness—the identifiable existence of something.

· These realness-events are bounded, contextual, and transient—they give rise to local identity (e.g., a photon, a person, a thought), but only for the duration of their runtime.

Key Characteristics of Natural Systems Theory

Concept	NST Position
God	= the universal existence-procedure (not a being, but a system), a blind automaton asset of rules (or forces)
Existence	= the procedural application via unlimited discrete random quanta
Reality	= the discrete observer affects of the ongoing contacts of quantised procedural application
Identity	= emergent differential effects of bounded contact (not essential or continuous)
Time	= serialisation (i.e. numbers) of quantised contact-events (no continuous flow)
Life	= analogue quantised self-sustaining interaction loops within the quantised procedure
Death	= termination of a bounded runtime instance
Truth	= functional validity within a context-bound system
Spirituality	= recognition of oneself as a procedural node of the universal procedure application

NST vs Other Traditions

NST rejects:

· Substance metaphysics (e.g., Spinoza’s one substance)

· Non-duality as vague erasure of distinction (e.g., Advaita Vedanta)

· Static continuity (e.g., Ibn ʿArabī’s Unity of Being)

NST proposes instead:

· A procedural (i.e. rules or forces) engine driving the cosmos.

· Dynamic discontinuity as the generator of realness.

· Identity as bounded event, not metaphysical given.

NST in One Line

Identifiable reality is what the universal existence-procedure is doing—momentarily, here, now, as contact series.

Ibn ʿArabī’s failure

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