Absolute Value

Even more fundamental than behavior driven by Instinct
      is Lifehood facility, in creature and in noncreature,
            that, like Life itself, operates only when, and always when,
Necessary conditions obtain.
Through this understanding we may arrive at a proof
      of the irrelevance of the evanescent details and subjective tenor of Thought
            by observing, for example,
That regardless of whether human coitus is undertaken
      in love, hatred, joy, contempt, wedlock, incest, ritual,
            alertness or oblivion—
                  regardless even of whether the meeting of egg and sperm results
                        from the action of body or the action of machine—
The continuance of Life in a fresh individual or individuals always results
If Sufficiency Of Condition exists.

Regardless of whether Mind's subjective relation to Action
      is positive, neutral, or negative,
Life itself operates always to implement,
      is the ongoing resultant of,
            the absolute value of Action,
                  the resultants of which are always positive,
                        always undeembedably contributive to the unfolding stateness of Being,
Regardless of the degree of Perception and Apprehension by Creaturehood
Of its own or any resultancy,
Of its own or any agency.


Begun May 3, 2008 Copyright © 2008 by David Newkirk. All rights reserved.
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