• James Dean Conroy
    142
    Exactly - this is really sharp.
    You're touching the heart of something profound: life itself is the bridge from is to ought.

    Because life has an intrinsic orientation: to survive, to persist, to thrive.
    Given that orientation, descriptive facts ("this is dangerous," "this is nourishing") immediately imply prescriptive action ("avoid this," "seek that").
    No external 'principle' is needed, it's built into the nature of being alive.

    In a sense:
    Is: "This supports life."
    Ought: "Therefore, I ought to move toward it."

    The very fact that you are alive already loads reality with value.
    Life = the original source of value.

    You’re very close to something that philosophers like Hume, Moore, and others glimpsed but didn’t fully land.
    This idea also lines up perfectly with the core axiom of Synthesis philosophy: Life = Good.

    You can find the formal paper HERE
  • Vivek
    15
    Yes, I think we're on the same page :smile: . (Bah someone else thought of it too haha.)
  • James Dean Conroy
    142
    trying to communicate this to the 'philosophers' in here - is impossible...
  • Count Timothy von Icarus
    3.6k


    Bah someone else thought of it too haha.

    Don't feel too bad, the connection between ends, the unity by which anything is any thing at all, and life's maintenance of its own form is the key thread that Aristotle develops through the Ethics, Physics, and Metaphysics. It's a quality insight and can be developed in a number of ways. Lots of thinkers still pursue this basic framework and Saint Thomas Aquinas' extension and refinement of it.
  • James Dean Conroy
    142


    Yes, I mention that thread in my paper - it has 26 citations.

    This isn't a new idea (It came to me through the Torah), this is the clarification and formalisation of it in its distilled form:

    The Trifecta - Formal Definition of the First Three Axioms
    1. Life is, therefore value exists.
    Formal Statement: Without life, there is no subject to generate or interpret value.
    Explanation: Value is not a free-floating property. It is always attributed by a living
    subject. Rocks do not assign value. Dead universes do not weigh worth. The existence of life is
    the necessary condition for anything to be regarded as good, bad, true, false, beautiful, or ugly.
    Implication: All systems of ethics, reason, or judgment are parasitic on life. Value is not
    ]discovered; it is enacted by life.
    2. Life builds, therefore growth is what is valued.
    Formal Statement: Life persists by resisting entropy through structure, order, and
    adaptation.
    Explanation: From the molecular to the civilisational, life constructs patterns that
    propagate itself. This is not moral, it's mechanical. Growth, complexity, cooperation, and
    innovation are selected for because they enable continuation.
    Implication: What sustains and enhances life tends to persist. “Good” can be structurally
    defined as that which reinforces this persistence.
    3. Life must affirm itself, or it perishes.
    Formal Statement: For life to continue, it must operate as if life is good.
    Explanation: A system that ceases to prefer life will self-destruct or fail to reproduce.
    Therefore, belief in life’s worth isn’t merely cultural or emotional, it’s biologically and
    structurally enforced. This is not idealism; it’s existential natural selection.
    Implication: To endure, life must be biased toward itself. “Life is Good” is not a
    descriptive claim about all events; it’s an ontological posture life must adopt to remain.

    Please do read the paper.

    I know the feeling lolVivek
    I've just read how you were condescended - it was the exact same people who refused to engage in my thread, thinking sophistry makes them clever.

    Just here to stroke their ego.
  • James Dean Conroy
    142
    I'd love to continue this privately as well.
  • Vivek
    15
    Yeah, there's no shortage of jackasses in the world lol.

    "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
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