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Procedure Monism development This essay argues that monism is not the gradual spread of a
belief, but the progressive refinement of language and models applied to a
single, recurring human intuition: that the many phenomena of the world
arise from one underlying reality whose nature remains essentially unknown.
This intuition appears repeatedly across cultures and epochs, long before the
linguistic, scientific or conceptual tools exist to explain it clearly. Early thinkers such as Heraclitus (c. 540
to c. 480 BCE) and the authors of the Upanishads (c.
800 and 400 BCE) articulated
this insight using metaphorical and negative language, pointing to unity
while lacking the means to describe its mechanism. As a result, early monisms relied on continuity metaphors like substance,
being, or emanation, often preserving unity at the expense of explaining
diversity. Historical (human AI) compression patterns
support this view. Ancient polytheism gradually condensed into
counter-intuitive monotheism,
and astronomy evolved into cosmology, culminating in the equally
counter-intuitive one Big Bang model. In each case, explanatory
complexity was reduced as observational resolution improved, even though
ultimate causes remained unknown. Later monistic systems, such as Spinoza’s substance monism and Whitehead’s
process philosophy, advanced descriptive precision but retained limitations
shaped by their intellectual context. Each model captured an aspect of the
intuition while leaving key questions unresolved. Procedure
Monism is presented as the latest provisional attempt
in this lineage. Drawing on modern scientific concepts such as procedures (as
sequence), constraints (as rules or laws), iteration (as
recursion), and methods such as quantum computation and systems theory,
it models how the One (possibly as quantum ocean as densely packed
quantum condensate) could appear as the many without invoking
transcendence or illusion. Procedure Monism does not claim finality, but usefulness, acknowledging that future
developments will further revise, update or replace it. Across
history, the intuition of unity, i.e. Oneness, remains constant; what
changes is the resolution with which it can be described. Monism, in
this sense, is an ongoing modelling effort rather than a finished doctrine. The
Long Attempt to Name the One The druid Finn also said: |
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