Original Goodness in the Natural Context

1. The Ground: Nature as Serial Contact

In druidic Natural Systems Theory, nothing simply exists; everything happens as a sequence of contacts—bounded encounters of discrete forms.
Each contact transmits (instructs to generate) form (information) and produces an affect, the real event of change.
Every affect that coheres becomes a good, a stable configuration capable of further contact. About what does not affect nothing can be said!
This procedural chain—

Contact → Affect → Good → New Contact → …
is how reality continues.

2. Why Every Emergence Is Good

Affect is the act of becoming real. Serial affect generates identity.
When affect coheres, it generates a good—a successful instance of being.
To cohere, even briefly, is to have prevailed over non-being.
Therefore every emergent event, by simply existing, already is a good (hence good).
Goodness is not a moral label; it is the natural condition of viable being.

To be at all = to have succeeded in being = to be good.

This is the druid Finn’s principle of Original Goodness: goodness precedes judgment because reality itself is the act of coherence.

3. Life as Continuous Conversation

Since each good stores and transmits information, the totality of goods forming the cognizable cosmos—functions a self-communicating field.
Life, in this sense, is the active zone of the conversation: the domain where contacts are dense, affects continuous, and goods self-renewing.

John Scotus Eriugena (9th century CE) (with Plotinus) intuition:

· “Everything that is, is in God; and God is in everything that is.”

· He treated creation as God’s (Finn’s NATURE) self-contemplation — existence as divine thought taking form.

Life is not something added to matter; it is matter in full communicative motion.
Each living event keeps the dialogue going, teaching the system how to continue.

Thus:

Life = ongoing contact = ongoing good.

4. “Life Is Good” Explained

The minim “Life is good” or ‘Is, is good’, is not moral optimism but a statement of natural fact.

Term	Procedural Meaning
Life	sustained pattern of affective contacts capable of self-renewal
Good	coherence achieved through affect; information successfully transmitted
Life is good	every living event is proof of successful coherence; life is the operational form of goodness

To live is to participate in the universal exchange of information.
Every breath, pulse, or perception is a new act of contact; every contact a quantum of good.

5. Consequences

1. No external source of value.
Goodness is not decreed; it arises naturally wherever affect coheres.

2. Freedom is inherent.
Because each emergent determines its own form through contact, life expresses autonomous goodness.

3. Ethic of participation.
To sustain contact—rather than to isolate—is the natural good act.
Separation or indifference equates to loss of affect, hence loss of being.

6. The Druidic Statement

Finn, the mystic, would phrase the conclusion in his usual minimal syntax:

Life touches itself into being.
Every touch teaches.
Every teaching is good.

or even more compactly:

Life is good because life is contact continuing.

7. Final Summary

· The cosmos functions as a self-communicating system of affective goods.

· Each act of life is a local continuation of that system.

· Therefore life itself embodies original goodness: the fact of being in communication, of touching and being touched.

Original Goodness = the natural condition of all living contact.
Life is good = the procedural truth that every act of existence renews the conversation of being.

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