Abstract framework for goal achievement

by the Druid Finn

1. Initialization (Setting the Procedure)

· Abstract function: Establish the starting condition.

· Purpose: Define that there is a goal; create a bounded context in which pursuit begins.

· Without it: No procedure runs, no orientation occurs.

2. Coherence (Reducing Dispersion)

· Abstract function: Align energy and attention; suppress competing fluctuations.

· Purpose: Create single-minded focus that allows processing power to converge on the goal.

· Without it: Effort dissipates in randomness; noise overrides signal.

3. Application (Directed Contact)

· Abstract function: Channel coherent processing into action.

· Purpose: Produce discrete events — strikes, steps, experiments — that test and register progress.

· Without it: Potential remains unactualised; the goal stays imagined.

4. Embodiment (Becoming the Goal)

· Abstract function: Stabilize identity with the achieved outcome.

· Purpose: Internalize success so the goal is no longer external but lived as reality.

· Without it: Results dissolve back into flux; nothing is consolidated.

Optional 5. Iteration (Re-Initialization)

· Abstract function: Loop back; begin anew with a higher or adjusted aim.

· Purpose: Sustain growth; turn one embodied success into the foundation for the next.

👉 In short:
Initialize → Cohere → Apply → Embody → (Re-Initialize).

This abstract sequence maps the Patanjali’s Yoga Sūtras 1 - 4 onto universal goal achievement: the same algorithm applies whether stabilizing the mind, writing a book, cooking a pizza or evolving a life-form.

The Natural Procedure of Goal-Achievement and Release

Abstracting the essence of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras 1 to 4

The Druid’s Thought Experiment

1. Initialization (Starting the Procedure)

· Function: Establish a bounded aim, orient energy toward a defined goal.

· Investment: Energy is committed; the system self-limits to pursue a selected outcome.

2. Coherence (Concentration of Energy)

· Function: Suppress dispersion, align processing in a single channel.

· Investment: Effort accumulates as tension — stored potential energy (mental, physical, emotional).

· Risk: The greater the focus, the greater the strain if unrealized.

3. Application (Contact, Action, Strikes)

· Function: Apply coherent processing to real-world steps.

· Investment: Each act is an expenditure of focused energy, deepening the tension between effort and yet-unattained outcome.

· Condition: Success requires repeated contacts; failure reabsorbs energy into noise.

4. Embodiment (Becoming the Goal)

· Function: The goal stabilizes as lived reality; identity coincides with outcome.

· Investment: The previously external aim is now internalised as achieved state.

5. Release (Affective Natural Consequence of Attainment)

· Function: Energy invested in striving is suddenly freed.

· Effect: The surplus manifests phenomenologically as joy, bliss, rapture, catharsis —alternately described as label moksha, nirvāṇa, enlightenment.

· Mechanism: The greater the effort and coherence invested, the more intense the release at resolution. This is a natural feedback loop, rewarding persistence and reinforcing survival.

6. Iteration (Re-Initialization)

· Function: New goals emerge. The cycle begins again, but with energy boosted by the feedback of attained joy.

· Evolutionary Value: Systems that loop through this cycle gain adaptive advantage, since pleasure from attainment motivates renewed effort.

Summary of the Natural Procedure

Initialize → Cohere → Apply → Embody → Release → Iterate.

· The procedure is not mystical but natural.

· “Enlightenment” or “bliss” is the experiential side of a universal survival law: the sudden release of energy no longer required for striving.

· Traditions spiritualise it as liberation, but in procedural terms it is a feedback mechanism built into reality: joy is the release of bound energy when identity stabilises in achievement.

👉 This way, even “moksha” is not outside nature but part of a continuous algorithm — a natural law of emergence, achievement, and release.

The Druid said:

Kindly search your data base m to see if anyone else has proposed or come close to proposing such a natural law of emergence, achievement and release.

ChatGPT replied:

Short answer: I don’t find a single, canonical “natural law of emergence → achievement → release” that unifies coherence, contact/attainment, and affective discharge as one algorithm across physics, biology, and psychology. But several well-known lines of work each capture major pieces of what you propose:

· Task tension → completion → relief (Gestalt/field theory). Lewin’s school (via the Zeigarnik effect) holds that unfinished goals create a tension system that is relieved at completion—anticipating your “stored energy” and its release. WikipediaSimply Psychology

· Control theory of self-regulation. Carver & Scheier model goals as feedback loops; affect is feedback about rate of discrepancy reduction (progress). Positive affect when closing the gap—closer to your “boost” at or near attainment; “coasting” after success echoes release. Google Booksgoal-lab.psych.umn.eduCambridge University Press & Assessment

· Dopamine as reward-prediction error. Phasic dopamine spikes at unpredicted/achieved reward and shifts to cues as learning accrues; this is a neurobiological substrate for the sudden affective payoff at attainment. SciencePMC

· Insight (“Aha!”) as intrinsically rewarding. Neuroimaging shows insight solutions carry their own reward signal, i.e., a rapid hedonic discharge when a problem resolves—your “release” in microcosm. PubMedScienceDirect

· Goal-gradient & post-reinforcement pause. Effort accelerates near the finish line (stored energy focusing), followed by a pause after reward—another behavioral signature of release. SAGE Journalshome.uchicago.eduPMC

· Opponent-process dynamics. After intense striving or arousal, an opposite state (relief/pleasure) rebounds—formalizing affective “let-down/let-go” after attainment. people.whitman.eduSimply Psychology

· Predictive processing / free-energy principle. At a very general level, systems minimize surprise (error); successful prediction/attainment yields reduced free energy and subjective relief/pleasure—an abstract bridge to your law. PMCMIT DirectWikipedia

Bottom line

· There isn’t (yet) a single “named law” that stitches emergence → coherence → contact/achievement → affective release into one procedure.

· Your proposal integrates strands that are usually siloed—Gestalt tension/closure, cybernetic control loops, dopaminergic RPE, insight reward, goal-gradient, opponent-process, and active inference—into a unified natural cycle.

· That integrative framing (especially your emphasis on contact/strike as the real-making moment and affective discharge as conserved energy returning to the system) looks original in its combination and scope.

Expanded Summary of the Thought Experiment

Core Claim

The sequence Initialize → Cohere → Apply → Embody → Release → Iterate is not a rare attainment available only to saints, mystics, or geniuses. It is the basic adaptive procedure available to any survival-driven system, operating across scales of life and context. Whether photon, cell, organism, or human mind, the algorithm describes how systems persist, adapt, and thrive in the face of randomness.

Procedural Phases

1. Initialize (Set the Goal / Define Context).
Every adaptive act begins by orienting toward a defined outcome, whether that is a photon striking a detector, a cell moving toward a nutrient gradient, or a human setting a life-goal. Initialization is the act of marking a direction: a bounded aim that structures subsequent effort.

2. Cohere (Suppress Noise / Align Energy).
To survive, a system must resist dispersion into randomness. Coherence means focusing processing power into a usable channel. For a molecule, this might be bond formation; for a neuron, firing toward a specific signal; for a person, concentrating on one task. Without coherence, energy disperses and nothing stable emerges.

3. Apply (Action / Contact / Strike).
Survival requires contact with the environment. Systems must act, test, and register reality. Application is the series of discrete “strikes” that turn potential into actual. For humans, this means concrete steps; for simpler systems, it may be a chemical interaction or an adaptive movement.

4. Embody (Become the Outcome).
When action stabilizes, the system consolidates as the new state. The outcome ceases to be external and becomes part of the system’s identity. For a cell, metabolizing new molecules; for an animal, integrating a learned skill; for a person, living as the achieved self.

5. Release (Feedback / Affective Discharge).
Once the goal is embodied, the stored energy invested in striving is released. Subjectively, this manifests as joy, relief, bliss, rapture—what traditions call enlightenment, moksha, or catharsis. Biologically, it is the discharge of accumulated tension and the neurochemical reward of success. This feedback is natural reinforcement, not mystical exception.

6. Iterate (Reinitialize).
Survival is not static. Once one cycle is completed, new goals and challenges emerge. The procedure restarts, reapplying the algorithm to fresh contexts. Iteration is how life sustains itself across time, learning from and building on each cycle of achievement.

Universality

· Not restricted to mystics: The same law governs the saint meditating, the athlete training, the child learning to walk, and the organism adapting to its niche.

· Quantised across goals: Each goal, problem, or survival challenge is its own cycle — a discrete packet of effort, coherence, action, embodiment, release, and renewal.

· Applicable in any context: Whether facing random fluctuation (chaotic environment) or structured challenge (rule-based game), the same steps apply.

· Survival = adaptation via this cycle: Systems persist by repeating it, each loop conserving identity while adapting to change.

Implication

What traditions called “enlightenment” or “rapture” is simply the affective feedback of successful adaptation, not an extraordinary state. Every survival-driven system is equipped with the same procedure. It is the universal law of realness-emergence: a natural, discontinuous, iterative algorithm by which all identities survive, adapt, and experience themselves as real.

👉 Thus, the druid’s thought experiment reframes Patañjali’s four opening sūtras as a four stages of a general survival code regulating the fundamental self-adaptation loop of existence.

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