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The druid Finn said: “Be your
self” The druid mystic, Finn, states that authenticity follows
not from moral ideals or destiny but from the non-teleological
nature-as-structure of the Universal Procedure that generates identifiable reality itself. Under druid procedural
ontology, the universe is a rule-bound
generative process, analogous to a Universal Turing Machine, producing
emergent dynamic (i.e. beings) without overall (though locally personal) intention or purpose.
Each emergent, man, mouse or bacterium, happens as a confined, differential
iteration of a universal rules set: lawful in
origin, unpredictable in form, and unique in outcome. Within this framework, survival ‘fitness’ is never absolute or
designed in advance; it is determined retrospectively through survival and
exclusion within specific contexts. Evolution works not by improvement toward
a goal, but by the persistence of what happens to fit local conditions. Authenticity (i.e. being oneself) therefore has a strictly
operational meaning. Since each being is a random procedural output,
suppressing or imitating another pattern distorts the evolutionary process
itself. To “be your self” is not a moral virtue or path to success, but a functional necessity
that allows accurate selection, adaptation, and intelligibility to occur. Ancient Indian parallels with karma and dharma illustrate the same
logic: advancement arises from fully enacting one’s given function, not from
role-switching or self-idealization. Like playing one’s actual hand in poker,
authenticity sustains the integrity of the game. The
druid Finn’s conclusion is stark and anti-romantic: there is no
destiny, purpose, or cosmic demand to be authentic. But precisely because
existence is a stochastic procedural experiment, fully (i.e.
@1, hence to the exclusion of all else) expressing one’s emergent nature
is the only coherent way the system can continue to work at all. The druid Finn also said: |