PROCEDURE MONISM 2.3

A Monist Systems Specification of generative Reality

By the druid Finn

0. Ontological stance (elsewhere sub’stance)

There emerges one and only one generative system: the Universal Procedure (UP).
UP is not substance, information, law, field, or agent.
UP is the minimal transduction rule (meaning constraint)-set (for instance the 4 forces of nature) governing how any event can generate the next state-change.

Everything that exists is a local differential iteration of the UP x.

1. Event Substrate (Turing’s tape)

Axiom 1 — Stochastic Quantum Event Ocean

Reality contains an effectively unbounded substrate of stochastic quantum events.
These events are:

· discrete,

· blind,

· pre-informational,

· non-semantic.

UP is inert without this substrate.

II. Event Ontology

Axiom 2 — Contact Event Exclusivity

All existence consists of discrete contact events: minimal exchanges of action constrained by UP.

An event is not a particle, field, or substance, but a localized interaction:
a minimal transfer of action constrained by Planck-scale limits.

There are no persisting objects — only temporally extended sequences of UP-governed events.

III. Procedural Transduction

Axiom 3 — Transduction Rule

Blind quantum (hence digital) events never transmit information.
They are converted into structured state-changes by UP.

Information is therefore not ontic; it is receiver-generated analogue output.

IV. Meta-Constraint Formation

Axiom 4 — Differential Stabilisation

When UP-iterations locally recur with sufficient reliability, they generate secondary constraint-systems.

These are not new constraints-systems (i.e. rules); they are self-stabilised differential expressions of UP.

Physics parallels: bound states, attractors, symmetry breaking.

V. Procedural Identity

Axiom 5 — Operational Identity Criterion

A system qualifies as an entity if it:

1. regenerates its constraint-sets,

2. compresses degrees of freedom,

3. resists perturbation,

4. retains recurrence memory.

Identity is UP maintaining a loop of its own activity.

VI. Meaning and Normativity

Axiom 6 — Error-Sensitive Transduction

Meaning arises when UP-iterations construct internal error-models enabling discrimination between successful and failed transductions.

Meaning is not content — it is procedural self-evaluation.

VII. Continuance Filter

Axiom 7 — Constraint-Cost Selection Principle

UP statistically amplifies those local loops that minimise constraint-maintenance cost under perturbation from the event-substrate.

This is survival without teleology.

VIII. Regime Stratification (UP at Depth)

Regime	Dominant UP Pattern
Physical	Symmetry-stabilised recurrence
Biological	Boundary-repair constraint loops
Cognitive	Error-correcting predictive loops
Cultural	Norm-replicating meta-constraints

All regimes are differential (i.e. local) self-iterations of the same UP.

IX. Falsifiability Conditions

Procedure Monism 2.3 fails if:

· any entity exists without being a UP-iteration,

· information exists independent of transduction,

· meaning exists without error-sensitivity,

· order arises without stochastic substrate input,

· identity persists without constraint regeneration.

X. Final Synthesis

Reality is not composed of things, data, or meanings.

(Generative) Procedure Monism is defined as one Universal Procedure iterating over an endless ocean of blind quantum events, producing every atom, organism, mind, myth, and civilisation as temporary self-stabilised transduction loops.

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