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The Freedom of the
Decided The druid’s minim “The perfect slave is free” is not a
moral paradox but a structural insight into how freedom arises in functional systems.
Freedom does not belong to unconstrained parts; it belongs to coherent
wholes. A system becomes free only when its internal components are fully
aligned with their constraints and no longer compete, hesitate, or
renegotiate their roles. The key condition for freedom is decidedness. A decided system is
complete: its functions are settled, its roles fixed, and its internal uncertainty
resolved. Such a system wastes no energy on internal conflict and is
therefore capable of immediate, fluid and whole interaction with its
environment. Undecided systems, by contrast, expend their capacity internally
and are consequently less able to act wholly externally. Quantization plays a crucial role in this
logic. A quantum is not vague or random but a decided unit with
precise allowable states. When the parts of a system operate as strict,
deterministic “slave routines,” the system as a whole gains
maximal freedom of movement. This is exemplified by a motor car: only when
every component functions perfectly and without discretion can the car itself
go anywhere. Any internal deviation reduces the freedom of the whole. The same structure applies to the mature adult.
Maturity consists in the full internalisation of constraints—biological,
cognitive, and practical—so that action proceeds without internal
negotiation. Such an individual appears authentic, spontaneous or unpredictable
from the outside, not because of internal chaos, but because of complete
internal coherence. Apparent randomness is thus an external effect of
internal certainty. In this view, freedom is not the absence of constraint
but the result of resolved constraint. Only complete, coherent, and fully decided systems
can function as unified quanta, and only such systems can attain genuine
freedom of interaction. The druid’s minim “The perfect slave is free” therefore
stands as a systems law: perfect internal constraint is the precondition
of external freedom. The Freedom of the Decided, adv The druid Finn also said: |