Thomas Szasz said the world of scholarship and academics is like a Western: He who “quick draws” the right statement, concept or language first is the winner. Mantheorists like Marcello Gleiser and Isaiah Berlin say that finding a lynchpin foeverything is impossible at least because science cannot reconcile science and art let alone make sense of human history and cultural diversity and the laws governing gravity versus cellular physiology. Berlin called this the Ionian Fallacy as his counterpoint to the Ionian Fantasy that was the ancient idea that the function and meaning of life could be distilled down to a single orbit, concept or function. But it can. At least life can. And all the “inanimate” world is its platform and art gallery, the “dead” platform on which life does what it is supposed to do. To start, let’s forget quantum physics and astrophysics and focus on the near rather than the far: What if who we are and what we do and think and see is the center of the universe and the entire purpose of creation? How about if the centrality of our existence is our own utmost well-being? What if every fact and law on the books is crafted to push us toward the best maintenance of ourselves in order to pursue the highest achievement of our own humanity? How about we are obligated almost by a power superior to us to learn about and achieve our own highest level of thriving—to be better than we are born—and to then channel that pure thriving into the highest expression of our humanity, and to witness and contribute to creation as best we can, and the more we fail in this process and obligation the more we bring risk and ruin upon ourselves? However much we fail in this dynamic is exactly how much we stress ourselves. And in this scenario, in our reality, stress is not just the cause of disease, it is what lies behind all of our problems, at least in human scale. This singular obligation that is bound into the innate expectations people hold for how we treat them, and what we are supposed to do, is the lynchpin of all reality and stress, and the counterpoint of stress, benefit.
Nothing is so audacious as to propose a Theory of Everything. A Theory of Everything is in fact the answer to everything. For instance, it holds the immediate answer to the cure for cancer. In five thousand years of civilization this is the only one I know of, and believe the explanation for how and why the world goes round is inarguable because it is so self-evident, beautiful and majestic that it stands as irrefutable. Physicists preoccupy themselves with the how on the function of life rather than the why, but at the right moment the scientific evidence tips the scale on why the human machine workexactly like a machine because we see its sole purpose, and the how becomes only academically important. For example, how the forces that make the balls of a Newton’s Rocker swing and click is a question and explanation that is as deep and ongoing as you want to make it; but none of this will ever change how or why a Newton’s Rocker is a machine whose own demonstration of balance plays its part in teaching us how to live our best life. Like the Rocker, the human machine works inside the “gravity,” the “orbit,” of what is our best possible life experience. This gravity, orbit, or “node,” is a two-part process: First, comes the simple ideal of survival in optimal thriving; next comes the simple ideal of how best we use all that thriving. All data, information and consequences align to show us our highest humanism. We are to find and maintain ouhighest level of health to pursue our highest level of humanity. The more we fail the more we pay a price. This dynamic reciprocity cannot be made any better than it is. Creation is perfect. The systems and structures inherently in place are flawlessldesigned to convince you of the inevitable conclusion that your own most fulfilled lifis one of fully embracing, understanding, accepting, appreciating and living your own realization of your highest humanity. And this does not mean to be a monk. This structure underlying evolution and all life takes its place in string theory as another interlocking block of perfect fixed reality. Whether we see it or not all of logic, datainstinct, results, reaction, consequences, risk and social dynamics are tied to this endpoint. The following mathematical equation represents well enough how this two-part functional node captures everything in human scale (and beyond) to introduce us to this optimal way of existing that is rather obvious and unimpeachable for its humanistic perfection so that it cannot sustain the tiniest edit:
Here, sigma (σ or Σ) symbolizes how Lamé coefficients and Hooke’s Law describe thmodular integrity, auxetic and tensegrous tension, curvelinear progression, elastic deformation, isotropy, and the mathematics of elastic structures that actively hold all life systems in place, including morality, tribal dynamics and the human psyche. Every biological system and organism shows evolutionary deference to this icon for the sake of an eventual higher holistic self-interest. This modular integrity spans tribalism, law, results, consequences, right and wrong, ethics, psychology, social dynamics, biology, physiology, history, revenge and reward. We know this is true because all tribes defininnocence and guilt by their own survival and improvement, and ultimately the best way to improve is through our gift of genius. We know this is true because no one is here to be the plaything of anyone else, to have the fulfillment of their liveshortchanged by the intrigues of someone else. The best way to protect genius is by the method outlined in the operating system. A tribe may be a predatory tribe that sees its own greatest well-being coming from harvesting other tribes. The consequences of this behavior is to stop or impede genius. The tribe may be so stupid and self-involved as to not care. But their stupidity does not change how they have cut short their own journey and improvement along a course of discovery that, so far as we can tell, is staggering in its potential reward. Maybe a tribe does not wish to improve its circumstances—but how long can this hypothetical be expected to last? The “invisible contract” remains: The more you are humane to others the more you maximize your own progress. Each molecule of the operating system resonates with the message. This lies at the heart of human bounded instability and our humanity. Our neural nets and reflexes are entirelwoven to eventually adhere to the lesson of mutual respect implicit in genius design because we stress and take on risk and die the more we split from this truly miraculous core of benefit and stress. This process is an eventuality because to get our epiphanright away, or to be born with it, or to learn it too easily, would be to make the greatest lesson of existence mean too little, and spoil the thunder clap of realization, and the surprise. To cheapen the lesson would also heighten the odds of fumbling away this stunning fact on the interconnection of all things. We would then all the more keep having to relearn the lesson by repeating the same cruel cycle of bad consequences that are progressively fused to any split from the ideal in biological determinism and tribal law. Biological determinism is fused to thriving. Our thriving is ultimately fused to the highest expression of our own genius. This process is an innate expectation. The awesome simplicity of this message may take sixty thousand years for some of us to get, but our slow pace does not change the perfect humanism offered every moment by all data and the results of choices at the heart of holistic reward. This flawless humanism ithe moral endgame of equifinality and superrationality. It frames the boundeinstability of systems theory and complexity science and the observations on spontaneous order and emergent self-order of Driesch, Powers, Bertalanffy and others first discussed as early as 1803.
Leibniz and Spinoza both asked “Why is there something rather than nothing?” The insight into the secret, meaning, purpose, reason and methodology of human life and indeed all of existence snaps together when we realize that not only does existence offer something rather than nothing—but rather that the open offer opens a gateway to a life experience that we cannot imagine anything better than. The only thing that can unlock this experience is to holistically respect and understand everything and everyone that is here. This invitation can only be actualized best through epiphany, education, learning and free choice rather than force, disinformation and anti-learning. The lesson is so exquisite, beautiful, locked in, inevitable, self-integrated, isotropic, symmetrical and fair that it might appear to be the sole reason that existence and creation were ever made in the first place.
The horrible conflicts, wars, theft, welfare, disinformation, tribalism and injustice of thhuman organism during this first five thousand years of its arrival onto the borderscivilization, viewed from three hundred miles up, are as predictable, inevitable and machine-like as the resistance, vibration, protest, coughing and inefficiency of a neengine kicking into life and feeling out its operations for the first time. An engine showextremely tight parameters of bounded instability. The human machine much less so. But the human organism is a machine no less that shows hardened, bounded instability around this function of genius and creation.