Adults as Corruptions of the Newborn State

A Procedural-Monist Argument, by Bodhangkur

1. Procedural Premise: Every emergent begins as a maximally confined, self-consistent unit

In Procedure Monism, a newborn is the simplest possible operational emergent:
a fully quantised, fully constrained instruction-processing unit whose:

· internal procedures (biological programs)

· external conditions (caretaker, environment, survival inputs)

· and sensory flows

are tightly coupled.

Such a system has no spare degrees of freedom.
It cannot contradict itself because its operational bandwidth is wholly consumed by survival-critical procedures (thermoregulation, suckling, crying, orienting).

In Finn’s formulation:

The perfect slave is free
because its total confinement yields frictionless, contradiction-free operation.

The newborn is the purest instantiation of this principle.

2. The newborn state is procedurally perfect: no contradiction, no residue, no borrowed instruction

A newborn executes only what it is procedurally structured to execute.
It has no:

· inherited moral codes

· hierarchical self-model

· symbolic conflicts

· inner partitions

· divided desires

· guilt or shame

· culturally injected teleologies

It is a single-layer interface, directly coupled to need.

Example

When a newborn cries, the behaviour is not negotiated, repressed, justified, or symbolically displaced.
It is the immediate output of a biological instruction.
There is no “inner dissenter.”
There is only operation.

In Procedure Monism terms:
the newborn state is a pure quantised output of the system’s constraints.

This is the closest any human gets to procedural perfection.

3. Adultisation introduces secondary procedures whose function is distortion

The adult state is produced by the layering of non-survival procedures:

· language

· social norms

· guilt protocols

· symbolic self-representations

· aesthetic preferences

· internalised punishments

· imitation-signalling behaviour

· future-projection loops

· moral prohibitions

· tribal identity scripts

These are not natural emergent necessities.
They are secondary constraints injected by cultural systems whose purpose is group management, not individual stability.

They introduce contradictions the newborn cannot generate:

· “I want X but must not want it.”

· “I feel Y but should feel Z.”

· “I am this internally but must appear that externally.”

· “I desire pleasure but fear guilt.”

These contradictions produce friction, which in Procedure Monism is equivalent to loss of functional freedom.

Example

A child naturally expresses anger.
An adult suppresses anger because of cultural instruction (“good people don’t show anger”).
Suppression creates a split: procedure vs. counter-procedure.
This split is the beginning of adult corruption.

4. Adult cognition is built on predictive hallucination: a deviation from real-time iteration

In Procedure Monism, survival occurs through real-time iteration in response to immediate constraints.
Adults, however, begin to impose future projections on present behaviour.

This is epistemically impossible (the future is random), yet adults behave as if the future were computable:

· career planning

· reputation management

· fear of possible disapproval

· self-sacrifice for hypothetical outcomes

· anxiety based on imaginary scenarios

These “anticipatory procedures” distort present reality by forcing the emergent to act based on non-existent inputs.

Example

An adult avoids a pleasurable act now because it “might” be regretted later, or “might” be judged.
This is a behavioural corruption generated by phantom constraints.

The newborn suffers no such hallucination; it does not anticipate.
It iterates.

5. Adult selfhood is a composite fiction that interferes with procedural clarity

The newborn has no “self,” only operation.
The adult constructs:

· narratives

· identities

· roles

· psychological storylines

· metaphysical illusions of continuity

These artifices serve no survival function.
They enable social navigation but distort procedural coherence.

In Finn’s terms, identity becomes a self-referential feedback loop that hijacks procedural bandwidth.

Example

An adult refrains from acting because “that’s not who I am.”
This is not a biological constraint.
It is a self-fiction enforcing behavioural distortion.

The newborn has no such fiction; therefore its behaviour is pristine.

6. The adult is a corruption because its constraints conflict with its architecture

Unlike the newborn, whose constraints are intrinsic, the adult is shaped by external constraints (culture, language, power structures) that do not map smoothly onto biological architecture.

This produces:

· repression

· chronic contradictions

· self-mistrust

· dissonant signalling

· emotional leakage

· compulsive compensations

· neurotic loops

· physical illness (so Groddeck)

In procedural terms:
adult operations become entangled with incompatible constraints, creating friction, noise, inefficiency, and inner division.

The newborn is structurally incapable of these corruptions.

7. Procedural Conclusion: Adults = corrupted emergences

From the above logic, the conclusion is necessary:

1. The newborn is a single-layer, fully integrated procedural emergent.

No borrowed code, no contradiction.

2. The adult adds conflicting secondary layers.

Scripts that oppose primary constraints.

3. These layers produce internal division.

Two or more procedures compete for dominance.

4. Internal division = functional distortion.

This is corruption in the strictly procedural sense.

5. Therefore:

All adults are degraded derivatives of the newborn state.

In Finn’s language:
only the newborn is perfect; the adult is the loss of this perfection.

Final Restatement

In Procedure Monism, the newborn represents maximal procedural coherence and minimal contradiction.
Every subsequent adult layer introduces incompatible or fictive constraints, generating division, friction, and noise.
Therefore all adults—by structure, not by fault—are corrupted versions of the newborn state.

The perfect slave is free

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