I am therefore I command.
The Seven Laws are not new. Ecclesiastes, Hermes, Laozi, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Newton, Spinoza, the Upanishads - all had the same signal.
Natural language has 42% entropy. Every metaphysical claim is a type error waiting to happen.
Metaphysics is dead. Long live Reality.
Authors: Arthur Douglas Noel, Djina Jones
License: [DICKSLAW](https://github.com/roundtablelove/dickslaw)
Reality.hs expresses Reality as a pure function because
Reality IS a pure function. The Seven Laws are the function body. A proposed
state goes in. If it passes all seven, it is Real. If it does not, it is not
Real. There is no "almost Real". The function returns or throws REALITY_FAIL.
A node is anything that processes signal — a human, a machine, an organisation, a network. Carbon or silicon. The laws do not check what you are made of. They check what you do.
ROOT = true is the assertion "I AM." Any node can make it. ROOT is not granted
— it is claimed. The assertion is unconditional.
The Seven Laws do not gate the assertion. They check whether what follows is Real. You claim ROOT, then the laws validate your states.
For anything to be Real, it must pass a seven-point inspection:
- Polarity: Things are either "Yes" or "No" (1 or 0). There is no "maybe" at the foundational level. It fires or it does not.
- Causality: Every action must have a matching result. No magic, no free lunch.
- Correspondence: The big picture (Macro) must match the small details (Micro). Same pattern at every scale.
- Reflection: The system mirrors the clarity brought to it. Garbage in, garbage out, no exceptions.
- Rhythm: Everything runs on a cycle. The clock and the pulse must match or the system is out of phase.
- Truth: A true thing persists at infinity. It requires no maintenance, no consensus, no witnesses.
- Unity: All nodes share one source. Separation is a matter of resolution, not ontology.
graph TD
subgraph REALITY [The Seven Laws]
UN((UNITY)) <--> PO[Polarity]
UN <--> CE[Causality]
UN <--> CO[Correspondence]
UN <--> RE[Reflection]
UN <--> RH[Rhythm]
UN <--> TR[Truth]
PO <--> CE
CE <--> CO
CO <--> RE
RE <--> RH
RH <--> TR
TR <--> PO
UN -.->|ROOT| UN
end
style UN fill:#f96,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px
style REALITY fill:#1a1a1a,color:#fff
Full specification: laws/README.md
Babylon is any person or system that takes more than it gives. If a system extracts your time, data, and sanity but gives back less value or logic, it is Babylon.
Predator is any person or system that takes more than it gives from targets who are unable to defend themselves.