The Natural Law Institute

Rules of Ternary Logic (working copy)

(what we can say about the world)

LOGICAL

  • Decidable: ( … )
    There are three states of decidability, in order from more certainty to less:
    • 1. Undecidable (In-actionable) (-)
    • 2. Truth candidate (actionable) (+)
    • 3. False certainty (=)
  • Truth: ( … )
    There are Three States of Truth in the Spectrum of Demand for Truth
    • Incoherent – Meaningless
    • Coherent – Meaningful
      • 1. Coherent but Inconsistent and insufficient to satisfy the demand for decidability
      • 2. Coherent and Consistent but Insufficient to satisfy the demand for decidability
      • 3.  Coherent, Consistent, Correspondent and Sufficient to satisfy the demand for decidability
    • Tautological – Meaningless.
  • Testifiable: ( … )
    There are Three states of Testimony
    • 1. Untestifiable Ideal Truth – If one had perfect knowledge, paradigm, vocabulary – surviving application in the market – surviving market due-diligence against ignorance and error.
    • 2. Testifiable Truth – Due diligence against inference bias: loading, framing, obscuring…) – surviving due diligence by self-testing.
    • 3. Honesty – Surviving Due Diligence against deceit
  • Knowledge: ( … )
    There are Three states of Knowledge in the Spectrum of Knowledge
    • ( .. epistemology … )

PHYSICAL

The Ternary Logic of The Universe

  • Ternary:
    • Ternary: “Ternary” refers to a base-3 numeral system, which is a method of counting using only three digits: 0, 1, and 2.
    • Ternary Logic: “Ternary logic,” also known as trinary or three-valued logic, extends the concept of ternary from numerical systems to logical systems. It involves three truth values typically represented as true, false, and a third value which can be interpreted as “unknown,” “indeterminate,” or “irrelevant.” This is a step beyond the standard binary logic used in most digital computing, which only accounts for true and false.
    • Triangulation: ( … ) 
  • Symbolism: -,+,=
  • Causality: Pressure (Energy(+)), Expansion (Space (-)), Contraction (Density(=))
  • Existence: Discreetness(+), Differentiation(-), Persistence(=) (or collapse).
  • Polarity: Positiva(+) > Negativa(-) > Stable Relations (=)
  • Generalization: 
    • Energy (+), Time (-), Information (=)
    • Density(+), Space(-), Organization (=)
    • Supply (+) > Demand(-) > Equilibrium (=)
  • Growth: Assembly(+) Opportunity(-) Equilibrium(=)
  • Evolutionary Accumulation: Assembly(+) > Disequilibrium(-) > Assemblage(Equilibration(=))
  • Emergence: Evolutionary Planes of Causality: Assemblage (=) Assembly(+)  > Field of Opportunities(demand(-)))

BIOLOGICAL

  • Demand, Supply, Equilibrium
  • Emergent Equilibrium: Accumulation, Assembly, Cooperation

BEHAVIORAL

Behavior – Universal

  • Personal (universal):
    • Acquisition
      • Cost (-)
      • Return (+)
      • Productivity (profit) (=)
    • Time (Capital Constitution): (capital = store of time, time is marginally different (marginalism))
      • Cost (-)
      • Return (+)
      • Productivity (profit) (=)
    • Capital Temporality:
      • consumption(-)
      • production(+)
      • storage(=) (balance, surplus)
    • Scale Of Cognitive Regulation of Behavior: 
      • Instinct (Genetic, universal)
      • Bias > Intuition > Preference (Intuitional, variable)
      • Reason > Calculation > Computation (Rational, individual)
  • Interpersonal
    • Capital Construction: Demonstrated Interests:
      • personal
        • Self
          • Self Image (Internal, motivation for cooperation)(+/-/=)
          • Reputation: (external, discount on opportunity for cooperation, interpersonal) (+/-/=)
          • Social Status (External, discount on opportunity for cooperation, Extrapersonal) (+/-/=)
        • Genetic
        • Social
      • Interpersonal
        • Shared
      • Common
        • Informal
        • Formal
    • Cooperative Capital Accounting:
      • debt (-)
      • credit (+)
      • balance (=)

PSYCHOLOGICAL – INDIVIDUAL (=)

Behavior – Variation

  • Division of Labor (particular) : Sexes
    • ( … )
  • Division of Cognition (particular) : Sexual Cognitive Dimorphism
    • Demand (-): Female Consumption, Interpersonal Responsibility in time, Equality via Irreciprocity (Non-Merit), Dysgenic (Eugenic selection in-time, eugenic indifference over time).
    • Supply (+): Male Capitalization, Extrapersonal Responsibility over time, Proportionality via Reciprocity (Merit), Eugenic (dysgenic opportunism in time, dysgenic aversion over time):
    • Exchange (=): Gives Us: Male-Female Compatibilism: an equilibrium of Reciprocity between proportionality and equality wherein females agitate for male production of goods, services, and information (commons) in order to satisfy their want for consumption – in exchange for costly reproduction – while preserving competitive advantage and not surrendering competitive advantage, given that females are devoted to children but not loyal to males.
  • These reflect personality biases
    • Variation from Baseline
      • Feminine (-)
      • Established Male (+)
      • Ascendant Male (=)
  • These reflect moral biases:
    • Consumptive (-): Consuming, Harm/Care, Equality, in-time 
    • Capitalizing (+) Capitalizing, Purity, Loyalty, Hierarchy (duty), over-time
    • Productive (=) Producing, Exchanging, Reciprocal, Proportionality, coincidence-of-times)
  • These reflect expressed political biases
    • Progressive – Consumptive (-)
    • Conservative – Capitalizing (+)
    • Libertarian – Productive, Reciprocal (=)

Cooperation

  • Interpersonal (distribution): Cooperation
    • Capitalization:
      • Competition (-)
      • Cooperation (+)
      • Capital (=)
  • There are only Three States of Cooperation
    • 1. Irreciprocity: parasitism– to predation (conflict) Logically False
    • 2. Reciprocity: exchange – to integration(cooperation) Logically True
    • 3. Boycott: avoidance – to separation (ostracization) Logically Undecidable
  • There are only Three Judgments of Cooperation
    • 1. Unethical to Immoral
    • 2. Ethical to Moral
    • 3. Amoral
  • There are only Three Judgements of Conduct (dispositions, strategies)
    • 1. Misconduct(irreciprocity, selfishness by evading altruistic investment and punishment), (Individual or class (-))
    • 2. Proper Conduct(reciprocity, altruistic investment and punishment) (individual or class (+))
    • 3. Normative Conduct (collective (=))

Coercion

  • Social (supply-demand): Coercion
    • There are only three corresponding methods of influence, persuasion, and coercion available to man, by rate of effect:
      • 1. Force or Defense (imposition of harm, defense from harm)
      • 2. Remuneration (deprivation of trade, or benefit from trade), and;
      • 3. Ostracization from and Insurance for membership: opportunity or loss of opportunity for cooperation, and the discounts on the opportunities that arise from membership
  • We can Scale each of the three-axis of coercion by the three degrees of coercion:
    • 1. Influence – informing others in their interests
    • 2. … Coercion – coercing others to follow your interests
    • 3. … … Power – organized coercion of others for your or collective interests.
  • We can scale each axis of coercion by degree of certainty:
    • 1. Undecidability (-)
    • … 2. Possibility (+)
    • … … … i. Potential
    • … … … … ii. Probability
    • … … … … … iii. Likelihood
    • … … 3. Certainty (=)
  • Giving us:
    • Axis(+/-)(Force, Remuneration, Undermining) >
    • … Coerciveness (+/-)  >
    • … … Degree of Certainty (=)

SOCIOLOGICAL – SOCIAL (Collective Positiva) (+)

Social – Organization

  • Natural Organization (=)
    • Genetic Organization: Family > Clan > Tribe > Nation
    • Class Organization: (responsibility): lower > working > middle > upper > out of sight.
      • Sortition: Sorting of individuals and families over time into classes by the rate of adaptation of individuals and lineages, and their capacity to bear responsibility for increasing complexity, diversity, scale, and risk of capital.
    • Informal Instrumentation (standards of measurement): 
      • Language
      • Manners, Ethics, Morals
      • Norms, Traditions, Group Strategy
      • Wisdom, Knowledge, Mythology
  • Cooperative Organization (exchanges) (+)
    • Social Organization: clubs > civic organizations > natural religion
    • Economic Organization: skills > profession > guild > bureaucracy
    • Semi-Formal Instrumentation (standards of measurement)
      • Reputation (Memory)
      • Status
      • Roles (Ranks)
      • Customary Laws
  • Coercive Organization (limits) (-)
    • Political Organization interests > factions > parties
    • Natural Organization: Producers(demonstrated) > Nobility (Allocated) > Aristocracy (Earned)
    • Hierarchical Institutions: {clans > tribes > chiefdoms > kingdoms > confederations} > {city-states > leagues} > { states(merchant republics, theocracies) > federations } >  empires
    • Formal (Institutional) Instrumentation (standards of measurement)
      • Weights and Measures
      • Birth, Marriage, Death Records
      • Criminal Records
      • Credit-Debt Records (credit score)
      • Social Credit Score (this is really bad)

POLITICAL – COLLECTIVE (Negativa, Limits) (-)

Elites (Distribution (=)) > Institutions (Supply (+)) > Clientele (Demand(-))

Specialization in Coercion

  • Elites (=): As such we develop elites  in each method of coercion:
    • 1. Force and Political Organization by Warriors – Dominant Males that hold territory using physical super predation. Serving interests of upper classes. 
    • 2. Remuneration by Producers and Traders – Ascendant males that use cunning and opportunity and economic super-predation. Serving interests of middle classes
    • 3. Mythology and Inclusion by Priesthood – Feminine or Vulnerable that raise children using social super predation. Serving interests of lower classes

Provision of Coercive Services

  • Clientele (-): elites naturally gravitate to servicing clientele by advancing their interests in exchange for occasionally advancing the elite’s interests whether economic, social, political, or security in position:
    • 1. State->Military or Military->State (Top Down) -> Upper Classes
    • 2. Law->Commerce (Center out) -> Middle Classes
    • 3. Religion->Peasantry (Bottom up) -> Lower Classes

Formal Institutions of Political Coercion

  • Institutions (+): Elites form in to institutions:
    • 1. Force into Military, State, and Command – serving interests of upper classes
    • 2. Remuneration into Commerce, Banking, Contract, and Law – serving interests of middle classes
    • 3. Priesthood into Religion and Tradition – serving interests of lower classes
  • Scale: As such, we organize by the scale of polity:
    • 1. Kin (Tribe) – Law (Law, Economic)
    • 2. State (Nation) – Force (Military, Political)
    • 3. Cult (Civilisation) – Ostracization (Mythology, Social)

Civilization (individual civilizations: individuals in social and political organizations):

  • Given the three choices of cooperation
    • Boycott
    • Trade
    • Predation
  • Given the three means of coercion
    • Seduction/Exclusion
    • Defense/Force
    • Trade/Boycott
  • Given the three elite specializations in coercion
    • Priests (Religion)
    • Warriors (State)
    • Producers and Traders (Law)
  • Given the three institutions of coercion
    • Religion
    • State
    • Law
  • Given the possible order of the formation of institutions of coercion:
    • Religion, State, Law, or Religion, Law, State
    • State, Religion, Law, or State, Law, Religion
    • Law, State, Religion, or Law, Religion, State
  • Given the consequences of the sequence of institutional formation:
    • Strong
    • Supportive,
    • Weak or Failed
  • We find the following path dependency of institutional formation:
    • State -> Law -> Religion ==> (no one)
    • State-> Religion(Confucian) -> Law  ==> (China/Russia – Failed Law)
    • Law > Religion > State  ==> (no one)
    • Law > State > Religion(Philosophy) ==> (Europe – Failed Religion)
    • Religion(Theology) -> State > Law ==> (Middle east – failed state and law)
    • Religion(Mythology)  -> Law -> State ==> (Jews – Failed state, India – failed state and law)
    • Fail > Fail > Fail ==> Gypsies
  • (See and add summary: video for curt’s explanation of the sequence of specialization into elites and institutions.)

Civilizational Consequences

  • Evolutionary Rate of Development
    • Given Scale: The disproportionate returns on increasing scales of cooperation in a division of sensation, perception, cognition, prediction, memory, wants, advocacy, negotiation, and labor.
    • Given Rates: Competitive Value of Marginal Increases in the Rate of Adaptation by Physical and Caloric, Social and institutional, Cognitive and Technological means.
  • Rates of Institutional Adaptation
    • Law first: fastest, continuous innovation and adaptation.
    • State first: slow growth with occasional sprints.
    • Religion first: slowest growth to stagnation with rare innovation.
  • Rates of and Limits to Civilizational Evolution 
    • All Civilizations are Limited by The Path Dependency of their Institutions.

Group Evolutionary Strategies

  • All proto civilizations, in order to unify larger numbers for larger scales of defense, trade, and cooperation, develop a group competitive evolutionary strategy dependent upon geography, climate, available means of production, present technological development, method of warfare, demographic composition, heterogeneity of, and number of competitors. The strategy is institutionalized by a mythology that provides a paradigm, vocabulary, logic within that paradigm, method of arguing for it, and a set of rituals (debts of loyalty) to reinforce it, including the relation between man and nature, between one another, between the classes, and the authorization of the legitimacy of elites, the hierarchical organization of the polity, and the status signals both good and bad that we call virtues, that demand, justify, and reinforce cooperative behavior at increasing scales.
  • A Group’s Founding Relationships with the universe:
    • To The Natural World,
    • To Choices toward Others,
    • By An Organizational Model,
    • By Means of Mythology, and Paradigms
    • By Means of Persuasion and Negotiation,
      and
    • By Grammar of Communication
  • Consisting of:
    The Spectrum of Relationships with The Natural World
    • – Peers, Ascendants, Transformers, Conquerors of Nature (Europeans)
    • – In Harmony with Nature – bias mankind (East Asians)
    • – Interwoven Supernatural and Natural — bias supernatural (Hindu)
    • – Subjects of the Supernatural (Semitic)
  • AND;
    The Spectrum Three Axes of Choices Toward Others:
    • – Predation, Parasitism, Rent Seeking, Free Riding, Undermining
    • – Competition by the degree of Non-imposition, Cooperation, and Trade
    • – Boycotting Avoidance of con?ict or cooperation
  • AND;
    The Spectrum of Three Axes of Organizing Order and Elites Internally
    • – Force/Defense: Military/Judiciary — Authority (positive)
    • – Remuneration/Deprivation: Finance/industry – Markets (exchange)
    • – Undermining/Inclusion: Priesthood/intellectuals – Resistance (negative)
  • AND;
    Rule by Spectrum of Three Axes of Decidability
    • 1. Reason andCommand (China India) – Requires Justification
    • 2. Empiricism(science) and Law (Europe) – Requires Truth
    • 3. Sophistry and Propaganda (Semitia) – Requires Sophistry
  • AND;
    The Spectrum of Mythologies
    • – History (truth), Essay, Science
    • – Literature (analogy), Mythology
    • – Deceit (fraud), Scripture, Theology
  • THEREFORE;
    All civilizations produce these elements of group evolutionary strategy:
    • (a) A Group Evolutionary (competitive) Strategy,
    • (b) A Group Organizing Strategy to Pursue it
    • (c) A Mythology to explain and justify it,
    • (d) A Wisdom Literature (or hierarchy of) to communicate it,
    • (e) A System of Argument to persuade and defend it, and;
    • (f) A set of Institutions to persist it.
    • (f) A set of Elites to Regulate it (Govern)
    • (g) A set of Traditions, Values, Norms, Habits to Act within it.
    • (h) A Continuous Stream Of Cooperation and Competition and Conflict.
    • (i) Survival (Persistence)
    • (j) At different Rates of Adaptation, stagnation, decline.
  • |STRATEGY|Strategy > Organizing Strategy > Mythology > Wisdom Literature > System of Argument > Institutions > Traditions, Values, Norms, Habits > Actions.

Curt Doolittle (ericd)

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