Hazard - Appendix One - Existence

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Functional Map for applying in your Local Ecology

To observe the hazard of existence within your local ecology, you must first understand how J.G. Bennett defines existence itself: it is all that is possible under four universal and ineluctable conditions.

Bennett defines hazard as the combination of a directed process and uncertainty regarding its outcome. He argues that a hazard-free world is entirely impossible. To map the reality you are standing in, you must read the four conditions that govern it:

• Space: Our reality requires three dimensions to ensure that coherent structures are always possible.
• Time: Time is governed by absolute irreversibility; returning to the past is impossible and would destroy the existing world.
• Eternity (Potentiality): This is the domain where potentialities exist and constantly interchange with actualities. Potentialities must always exceed actualities, and without them, the world would instantly end.
• Hyparxis (Hazard): This is the dimension of the unpredictable and spontaneous activity of nature. It allows for interactions, discontinuities, and free acts to occur, but it does so strictly at the expense of certainty.

When you attempt to intervene in a living system, you will inevitably encounter hazard. Whether it is a stone rolling down a hill, a person mixing chemicals, or the moon's tidal friction, directed processes interact and create uncertainty. Because these interactions must produce uncertainty, hazard is an inviolable condition for the existence of the world, equally as necessary as the irreversibility of time.

Therefore, uncertainty is not a failure of your local ecology or a mechanical mistake to be controlled; it is the fundamental architecture of existence that makes choice and free action possible.

see you at a campfire,

Ākāśaḍāka