Karmic Residue as Function Incompletion

A Non-Mystical Account

By Bodhangkur

1. Karmic residue = unfinished business (de-mystified)

“Karmic residue” is not moral debt (as Vedantins claim).
It is function incompletion.

Formally:

Residue exists wherever a procedure is interrupted, deferred, or only partially resolved.

A completed function leaves no remainder (thus is free = moksha)
An interrupted function leaves a heap.

This is not spiritual. It is computational.

2. The Connemara wall: residue as halted procedure

In the Connemara image (worker, half-built wall, heap of stones):

· The wall is a procedure in progress.

· The heap of stones is karmic residue.

· The residue exists because:

o daylight ended,

o labour ceased,

o weather intervened,

o resources ran out,

o attention shifted.

Nothing mystical happened.
The process was halted mid-function.

So:

Stones are not “waiting to be a wall” by destiny.
They are the remainder of a procedure that did not reach closure.

Residue = what’s left when a constraint process stops short of completion.

3. Integrating both images into one invariant law

Now combine:

Kitchen scene

· Dough enters a constraint machine.

· Gnocchi emerge.

· The gnocchi are residue of transmutation.

· They exist because the process does not “close” in any final sense.
They pass on to chewing, digestion, metabolism, waste.

Connemara wall

· Stones enter a building procedure.

· A partial wall emerges.

· The heap is residue of incompletion.

· The heap exists because the process stopped.

In both cases:

Residue is the trace of a function that has not reached terminal closure.

The difference is only the scale and medium of the machine.

4. Humans as karmic residue of unfinished procedures

Now the mother’s line sharpens again:

“Karmic residue, Darling. Just like you.”

This means:

The child is:

· unfinished genetic procedure,

· unfinished developmental procedure,

· unfinished cultural procedure,

· unfinished socialisation procedure.

He is not “defective.”
He is procedurally open.

So is the mother.
So is every human.
So is every wall ever left half-built.
So is every identifiable reality.

There is no finished being.
There are only temporarily (and conditionally) stabilised, procedurally incomplete systems.

Residue is not error.
Residue is the normal state of any open process.

5. The core invariant: incompletion generates history

This yields Finn’s most general formulation:

Karmic residue is the historical footprint of halted or deferred function.
History exists because functions do not complete.

If every process reached closure, there would be:

· no leftover stones,

· no gnocchi,

· no children,

· no culture,

· no memory,

· no world with texture.

The world is textured because procedures are continually interrupted and resumed.

6. Final compression

The combined images say:

· The machine shows how residue is produced (constraint-driven transmutation).

· The wall shows why residue exists (function incompletion).

· The human shows what residue looks like when it can observe itself.

So the full statement becomes:

Karmic residue is not moral debt but procedural remainder.
It arises wherever a function is left incomplete.
Everything that exists is residue of prior unfinished processes.
To exist at all is to be unfinished business.

That “tops it off” cleanly:
the druid Finn’s karma is not a cosmic judgement —
it is simply the heap left behind by interrupted procedures.

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