Why Life Itself Is Good

The druid’s view of ‘Original Goodness’

1. The Natural Starting Point

In Natural (Physios) Systems Theory, everything that exists happens as a sequence of contacts — moments where distinct forms meet and exchange energy or structure.
Each contact produces an affect (a real event of change).
When that change holds together, it forms a good — a stable configuration that can act again in later contacts.

This simple cycle,

Contact → Affect → Good → New Contact,
is the operating principle of nature. It does not depend on belief, morality, or external control.

2. Why Every Emergence Counts as Good

Each coherent affect — every stable event that comes into being — represents a successful moment of existence.
To occur at all means that the contact worked: information was exchanged, a new state was achieved.
That success is what Finn calls good.
It is not moral judgment; it is structural fact.

· A photon striking an atom,

· A seed germinating,

· A human thought taking form —
all are instances of successful emergence.

In this natural sense, to be is already to be good.

3. Life as a Network of Contacts

Life is the domain where contacts occur densely and continuously.
Organisms maintain themselves by constant exchange — breathing, sensing, communicating.
Each act of contact renews the process of existence.
Because every living event is an affect that coheres, life as a whole is the ongoing expression of good.

Hence Finn’s minim:

Life is good.

It is not a slogan of optimism but a description of how life functions: continuous contact producing continuous coherence.

4. The Cosmos as Information System

Every good stores the pattern of its own formation.
When it meets new forms, it passes that pattern on.
In this way, all goods together form an information-transmission system — the self-communicating cosmos.
No external source is needed; the system teaches and renews itself through contact.
Reality is therefore not a static arrangement of objects but a field of ongoing communication.

5. Implications

· No external moral order.
Goodness is not imposed; it arises whenever contact succeeds.

· Freedom built in.
Each emergent determines its own form through its interactions.

· Ethics as participation.
To maintain contact — to stay in communication — sustains goodness.
Isolation ends it.

6. In Summary

· Everything real happens as contact.

· Each successful contact produces affect and coherence.

· Coherence is good.

· Life, as continuous coherence, is the natural form of goodness.

Therefore:

Original Goodness is not belief; it is the factual condition of existence.
Life is good because life is the ongoing success of contact.

Original Goodness

Contact realism

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