The Druid said: “Identity is Address”

1. The Premise: Nature as Procedural Event Field

Nature, in Finn’s Nature (i.e. not meta-physical) Systems Theory, operates not as a continuum but as a discontinuous series of quantised events.
Each event — photon, atom, cell, thought — arises as a bounded contact between dynamic momenta.
Nothing exists as a stable object; each identifiable thing (as nested aggregate) happens a momentary stabilisation of relational information — a transient realness created by contact.

NST axiom: Reality = the totality of discrete random contacts that generate locally identifiable realness moments/quanta.

No thing “is” in itself; everything happens as a momentary localisation of energy within a procedural field.

2. Emergence as Localisation

Each contact defines a local boundary condition, a short-lived self-addressed loop, within the background of possible interactions.
This localisation constitutes individuality, thus identity.
Identity is not a stored essence; it is a function of localisation — the act of being locally self-referential within the flux.

To identify = to localise, meaning constraint, energy (packets).
To localise energy = to define an address.

Hence, identity is coordinate, not content — a temporary address at which the universal procedure registers itself.

3. Address as Relational Definition

An address hence an identity is a procedural locator: “Here, and only here, this configuration occurs.”
It is not intrinsic to a “thing,” but is defined relationally within a network of interactions.

Examples:

· In physics, a quantum state’s coordinates mark its probability address.

· In computation, a process address denotes its execution instance.

· In cognition, the “I” functions as the address of awareness within a perceptual network.

Therefore, identity equals the address through which relational processes become momentarily specific and observable.

4. The Logical Sequence

Step	Description	Result
(1)	Energy manifests only in discrete contact events	Existence = localised contact
(2)	Each contact defines a temporary boundary condition	Boundary = identifiable pattern
(3)	Pattern recurrence allows recognition	Recognition = identity
(4)	Recognition depends on coordinates	Coordinates = address
→	Therefore	Identity = address

5. The Non-Conservation of Identity

Because every contact dissolves as soon as its local conditions change, identity cannot be conserved (so the Buddha intuited 2400BC).
There are no enduring entities, only successive address-events.
Continuity is procedural — a re-iteration of function, not of self.

In physics this is self-evident: no photon, atom, or living cell persists unchanged; each iteration is a new address instance generated by the ongoing rule set.
What appears as persistence is merely high-frequency re-addressing — a loop maintaining form by serial renewal.

Finn’s corollary:
“Identity is re-generated, never preserved.
Continuity is a procedural illusion of re-addressed events.”

Thus, individuality, memory, and history are not conserved substances but chains of address updates through which Nature maintains operative coherence.

6. In Summary

Natural Context Formula (NST):
Energy → Contact → Localisation → Recurrence → Recognition → Address
Identity = Address
Identity ≠ Conserved

Finn’s Aphoristic Restatement

“Identity is address,
and address is moment.
The self does not persist —”

Contact realism

Procedural ontology

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