DIASKITISM
(Self-agency, self-Discipline, and the pursuit of Competence)

Diaskitism: Greek for "by way of asceticism" (Dia = by way off, askitismos = asceticism).The belief that nature itself, and it's equilibia, is the expression of the creator (or the system) and thus serves as the only true bible to be held in reverence and sanctity and serve to derive higher meaning. The belief that human value systems and processes should be in harmony with nature (as God's machinery) without creating infinite expectations from finite systems. Diaskitism holds self discipline and self determination as foundational values and delinieates a set of principles believed to be rationaly self-evident, thus serving as a religious foundation.

Diaskit: An individual instinctively aligning to the principles of Diaskitism (such as aspriring to ascetic levels of self control in a lifelong endeavor of realizing the maximum possible extent of their own physical and intellectual genetic potential.)

SUMMARY OF DIRECTIVES (COMMANDMENTS) for Diaskitics

1. You shall hold nature itself as the only bible. The will of the engineer or tendency of the system is already embeded molecularly within nature by default. A clock needs not read a manual to know how to tick; it's timekeeping intention is already reflected by its engineering.
2. You shall strive to live in harmony with nature. Never see nature in contempt or you as separate from it, or superior to it, or practice ideas that can result in systemic, societal, or individual weakness, break natural equilibria, or that assume infinite resources in a finite system.
3. You shall strive for mental and physical athleticism via self discipline; self control, without self-shaming or self-denial. The focus shall be internal and not to the control of others.
4. You shall not do to others what would be unfair if done intentionally to you and shall not interfere with the peaceful free will of others, or offer unsolicited assistance, no matter how good your intentions might feel.
5. You shall seek knowledge that stands to forensic scrutiny and strive to understand the nature of the universe without distortions or deviation from objective reality.
6. You shall hold genes as the sacred fabric of life and aim to discover your genetic potential relative to your peers and adjust your mating participation proportional to your survival competence.
7. You are entrusted with the guiding of your progeny towards competence; as every child is the beginning of a thousand generations. Healthy new life, shall be nurtured without damaging it, or distorting it by excessive strictness or excessive leniency.
8. You shall defend your self-agency and self-determination and resist those that threaten, or obstruct you from the pursuit of these directives.

CHAPTER 1: Existential foundation

1. "Nature" (empirical reality) is the voice of the creator's intent regardless of sentient or non-sentient origin; as such nature is the ultimate guide. "Nature" implies the earth, its biome and ecosystems. Physical domain includes the medium in which earth exists, the known universe and any domains or extensions once discovered. Any processes, or systems, that interact together are part of the same domain. If new realms of nature are discovered then the notion of physical domain is expanded to include them. As such, there is only one nature; including its undiscovered aspects.
2. The nature of reality itself is inconsequential. The laws of physics will apply regardless of the nature of the medium that generates them, or enables them, and our objective within it remains fixed. For example if empirical reality is a simulation within another reality we are still governed by the rules of the simulation (harm within the simulation is still harm).
3. The will of the creator has been built as instinct (and function) into the machinery of creation at the microscopic level. A clock does not need to be told to "clock" and a calculator computes by design. The intent is already expressed in the design by its engineering. As such Nature is the original and only Bible and its function, synergies, and equilibria give cues to the intent of the actual creator versus invented ones, or beings with sufficient power differential to pass as one. The objective is to comprehend the essence (principle of operation) behind the natural systems and not simply emulate the individual processes. For example adhering to the essence of natural selection needs not emulate literally the process of pruning by means of harm.
4. "Creator" is a generic term that can imply either sentient or non sentient processes. Sentient origin implies intentional engineering. Non sentient origin implies coalescence from chaotic processes iterating towards systemic optimizations. As such, life itself may have either always existed (or engineered from other life), or spontaneously coalesced.
5. The mind is a survival computation organ. Its objective is to process sensory and to output survivable behaviors. Its instincts, or reasoning chains, or inductive predictions, must have the lowest error margins when tested against empirical reality. "Mind" may not be the exclusive property of biological beings, but of any being of sufficient computational density.
6. Design intent will be forensically interpreted by direct observation. Any doctrine or ideology that denigrates nature as a sin is a false doctrine. If such false doctrine claims divine origin, then it shall be rejected and seen as a mental test of accuracy and fidelity towards Nature (and Nature being the only actual and true will of the Creator).
7. The mind is to be applied as the processing organ for all sensory input and knowledge will proceed only with positive and forensically rigorous identification. All inductive hypothesis of phenomena yet to be sensed by objective instrumentation will remain in the realm of hypotheses. Knowledge will proceed as a network of ideas whose nodes represent verified discoveries and edges represent a proven link from its adjacent knowledge nodes. If pockets of existence, or knowledge, are hypothesized but are disconnected from the main knowledge graph (such that there is no sensory edge connecting them to the known reality) they will be treated as inconsequential. Ideas that are not forensically viable will be treated as fantasy and will not become basis for life decisions.
8. Sentience is a physical process; the functional operational computational output of the brain of any creature of sufficient neural and/or computational density. Conscience is a symptom of computational complexity (biological or not) and since physical reality is defined to include all undiscovered domains and aspects of it, the notion of souls being a separate entity from a supernatural domain is obsolete or unnecessary, since mere awareness of the supernatural's existence would imply the two domains are somehow interfaced and thus ultimately aspects of the same physical reality.
9. The optimal state of nature involves the synergistic equilibria of habitats and ecosystems. Any actions that result in transition states are to be considered dangerous unless the process is engineered with a known end-state of sufficient certainty. Objectivity is essential to the preservation of natural balances. A dominant species runs the sort-sighted danger of acting to favor its own self survival interests; skewing the established natural systems. Any such, perturbations may trigger transition states towards new and unforeseen equilibria. Natural transition states tend to involve pruning by death, which might fatally exceed the dominant species own genetic adaptabilities. For example, modifying the food chain at the genetic level introduces abrupt changes and potential incompatibilities against the eons-old genetics of organisms, including humans, which can trigger a transition state.
10. Each organism with a nervous system comprises a physical and a computational aspect. The mind computes survival and the body carries out the survival computation. It follows that mental accuracy and physical competence are the two desired states. The degree or amount of mental error against objective reality (nature) is to be seen as high entropy (disorder). The degree of physical ineffectiveness is to be seen as high entropy (disorder). As such, it follows, that the pursuit of low entropy would serve as a meaningful life goal. There ought to be an objective measure (a test of total functionality rating) for mental and physical entropy; such test must have a fixed frame of reference across generations.
11. Nature works by genetic permutation. Each permutation of a sentient being implies unique neural wiring which implies unique methods of interpreting nature. (It can be argued that a person's desire to arbitrarily harm is just as a valid as another person's desire to defend against it and as such no behavior is truly unnatural). Behavior norms ought to be derived by examining boundary conditions (what would happen to the natural and social equilibria if a behavior was practiced universally).
12. Genes are the blueprint of existence that encapsulate the word of the creator/nature; they are the fabric of all organisms and are to be treated as sacred across all ecosystems. It is the solemn duty of sentient beings to safeguard the purity of and steer their genes towards higher functionality rating (low entropy). Mating guidelines must be in place to always aim for low entropy lineage. Genetic sanctity shall have higher priority than the sanctity of life or mere quantity of life. Any transgression to genetic sanctity represents disrespect to the fabric of life and ultimately the creator. Any attempt to temper with the genetic code of other lifeforms in the ecosystem shall be seen as an attempt to re-write the word of the creator and shall only be performed by those that have attained and demonstrated super-intellect of sufficient magnitude to comprehend the totality of the original interconnected synergies of said ecosystems in which these organisms are members of. The intention and outcome shall not contradict or violate the creator's original intent

CHAPTER 2: The individual

1. An individual has full control of their own person in matters of life and death regardless of whether their decisions would be self-beneficial or self-detrimental. A person's own instinct is the voice of their nature. As a last resort of dignity, an individual can terminate their own life (Apoptosis) if they can no longer practice their value system, or if they sense too great internal mental or physical damage to remain competitive or viable.
2. Each person shall strive, throughout the course of their lives, to be a mental and physical athlete revealing the maximum extent of their natural, unaided, genetic potential. Competence is a fundamental principle in the functions of nature and is inherently encoded as meaningful in sentient beings and as instinct in non sentient beings. It follows that external aids, or enhancements, tend to dilute self worth and thus meaning. A chemically, or otherwise, augmented individual cannot distinguish which postions of their success is contributed by their natural genetics or by the enhancements; such dilution leads to lack of self worth and meaninglessness.
3. Each person shall strive for self control instead of the control of others. Self control can be seen as an aggregate measure of inner strength, but shall not manifest as denial, or contempt, of nature. It is one thing to be in control of pleasures and another thing to deny them completely, or be consumed entirely into rudderless hedonism.
4. Concepts of good and evil are obsolete. There are only competing objectives.
5. There will he no negative associations about default natural forms. Notions of prudishness, or decency, stemming from anthropocentric, elitist, and nature-contempting doctrines are deprecated. An advanced being can maintain decorum by the exercise of inner strength irrespective of dress or other accessories.
6. Emotion is the instinctive computational feedback to the survival success of an individual. Positive emotions are derivatives of positive survival actions or situations. As such emotion itself is an indicator (an instrument) and never a goal or an end of its own. As such emotion will not be targeted chemically; sensation and perception will be the only input modalities. Correctly stated, an individual must seek "the pursuit of mental and physical competence" for happiness to follow. Competence begets happiness.
7. No person is the property of another and no individual shall attempt to overtake control of the life decisions of another. It is important that a person's genetic viability is proven without external intervention (and unsolicited intervention, no matter how benevolent its intent, is a violation of the will of nature). Benevolence shall not be used as a reason to assume control of others. However, an uncoerced request for assistance is an individual's right; such decision being a product of their own neurology.
8. Offspring is an act of participation, not an act of creation. A parent merely utilizes pre-existing biological morphology and participates in a pre-established natural process. The young belong only to nature and a parent merely acts as a coach; neither as a lenient servant, nor as an overbearing dictator. Over-protectionism can undermine physical and/or intellectual competence of the young and over-discipline can cause trauma. Reality will not be concealed, it will be presented in its true form and imagination must always be identified as such.
9. No child shall be born to an unwilling or emotionally unavailable caretaker.
10. A being (human or not) receives personhood once sentience sets in (when a sufficient neural density threshold is reached for self awareness). There shall be a set of rudimentary quality criteria for pre-sentient offspring before acceptance to society. Said criteria shall take into account the totality of body and mind to answer the question of whether such individual would have been physically and intellectually viable and self sustaining in a primordial hunter/gatherer society and not a burden to those around. Society and/or parents have the sacred duty to preserve the genetic temple of the species and reject pre-sentient offspring either for biological viability reasons or parenting concerns.
11. Once personhood is attained, the caretaker(s) (along with society acting as safety net) are committed to the offspring's well being and its coaching towards adulthood and shall thereafter bear responsibility for emotional or physical crippling damages they cause.

CHAPTER 3: Society

1. The term "Society" is meant as the collection of adherents of this value system regardless of their degree of success in it and is not intended to be imposed to, or imply, all humans.
2. Punitive morality doctrines shall be avoided and there shall be no societal prohibitions intended to protect a person from themselves; since such prohibitions erode self control and promote mental atrophy. One cannot achieve virtue unless they are free to fail and no one is truly tested in the absence of hardship or a test. As such, any temptation is to be seen as the weightlifting of the mind and when temptations are outlawed the ability to resist them decays and falsely creates the appearance of competence. A person with the inner strength to freely resist a degenerative activity is stronger than a person that is being punitively coerced against it.
3. Society ought to be built on an implicit social contract that the totality of rules and interactions should not place an emotional and physical burden to individuals greater than that of the wild in a hunter/gatherer scenario. (It should not, quantifiably, be more dangerous or impractical living among humans than living in the elements alone).
4. Society shall strive for compatibility with the natural world. "Compatibility" is that for which the genes have developed a multi-generational adaptation for. A toxic gas from a volcano is just as incompatible as a man-made food additive. Any incompatible factor when present, evokes evolution by natural selection and natural selection prunes by decease and/or death.
5. Society shall be proactive and strive towards higher understanding of nature (and the physical domain in general) to maximize longevity of the species indefinitely towards lowest genetic entropy. Society shall strive for the lowest intellectual misalignment with the objective nature of the universe. The pursuit of universal truths and pure scientific inquiry shall be considered sacred. The innocense and purity of truth (including in matters of biology, health, and toxicity) shall take precedence and scientific inquiry shall exist outside the domain of profit, subtifuge, and personal gain.
6. Society shall not create dependency to itself by depriving individuals from basic competence for the wild. Every person within society shall be taught basic survival skills at a young age in order to develop competency to and appreciation of primordial origin.
7. Society shall base its legal system on the assumption that each person strives for strength and self control; it shall respect self agency and will formulate rules that act as a means of fairness among the strong (not as guardians of the weak). Society has the right to employ appropriate measures to enforce or arbitrate fairness during disputes.
8. Society shall be a supplement, but not a replacement, to each person's self preservation decisions. The balance between life and death shall be accepted along with the inherent background risks of nature. Pathogens and microorganisms are considered part of the ambient environment where each individual is responsible to assess self-risk and shall not be basis for societal suppression of self-agency and self-determination.
9. Society shall not engage in forced body modifications, chemical or otherwise (eg sterilizations, organ harvesting, gene altering, medications and similar) even during extinction level events regardless of how benevolent such modifications might sound. Society shall not chemically modify basic resources (food, air, or water) in violation of self-agency, such as when a common food or water supply is altered beyond a neutral state.
10. Society shall maintain a defense force where individuals shall make a personal uncoerced decision before joining.
11. Society shall place substantial emphasis on the new-born and the young. No person should enter adulthood with emotional or physical wounds from childhood. Parenting shall be a craft of constant societal refinement. The objective of a parent is to train new life to be emotionally and physically competent for survival. The most effective parents shall be recognized and their knowledge shall add to the refinement of the parenting craft.
12. Society ought to provide objective and standardized means and venues to measure the functionality rating of each citizen on a regular basis (eg two year). Multiple layers of protections against corruption of this mechanism shall be of the highest priority. The functionality rating shall have a fixed frame of reference (providing common ground throughout history) and shall be a composite of the mental and physical components (eg the sum or multiple of the two ratings). Physical tests shall involve bodyweight competence (eg pullups, pushups, two mile run), while mental acuity tests shall emphasize overall reasoning accuracy regardless of education level.
13. Society shall ensure governance positions are only ocupied by adherents of this value system with a functionality rating of at least the 90th percentile.
14. Society shall incentivize offspring quantity be proportional to the functionality rating of each individual. Society shall not punish low ratings; it shall only focus on rewarding the highest ones

On philosophical levels, when pondering existential origins, there will be no arbitrary domain restrictions. For instance, the domain of possibilities for life's origin may be sentient or non sentient. If sentient, it may be a single entity or multiple, extinct or non extinct, benevolent, malevolent, neutral, or of unknown objective, may be superior (implying a degenerative progression; each creation is lesser) or inferior (each creation is more complete), we may be the Nth iteration of derivative creations in which previous creators may or may not be interested or involved ... and so on. A suggested theoretical map is shown below.

Caution must be exercised with the use of mathematical concepts in that they might contain thought-purity so unrealistic that produces sophisms and paradoxes, or may contain subtle rationality ripples such that when embedded into assumptions and definitions and then taken for granted would lead to bizarre projections about the nature of reality (especially while handling notions involving infinity; given it's a dynamic concept where time has no meaning, but the mind can't handle it unless it takes a snapshot of it; thus making it static by removing time. This casting from dynamic to static is introducing micro distortions of reason).

The concepts of infinity and nothing are at the boundaries of human perception. Infinity, and recursion, seem to pop up a lot when pondering the nature of reality. On the other hand the concept of nothing is often implied in two variations: a soft nothing (as in there is nothing on a screen, because the wiring and diods have not expressed any function), and a hard nothing (as in the mathematical empty-set, containing no incredients to form anything at all). As such when pondering the begining of the observable universe we are forced to imagine a soft nothing and in doing so we are forced into a universe in a perpetual oscillation of existence, or an infinite recursion of universes starting within other universes.