What Happens When the Gita’s Core Assumption Is Removed

A general‑audience translation of the Scaffold‑Downgrade protocol, enabled by Deferential Realism's Logic The Bhagavad Gita rests on one enormous claim:the soul is eternal and cannot be destroyed. Everything Krishna tells Arjuna depends on this.So the calibration protocol asks a simple but devastating question: What if the soul is not eternal?What if it’s temporary—something that can … Continue reading What Happens When the Gita’s Core Assumption Is Removed

Deferential Realism: A Logic of Constraints

I. Foundation: Why Constraint-Logic? Traditional logic asks: Is proposition P true? Deferential Realism asks: What constraint-type is C, and what does that imply? This requires different logical machinery: Not truth-preservation → Constraint-type preservation under transformation Not validity → Classification coherence across evidence Not soundness → Action-consequence alignment The goal: Formal system for reasoning about what … Continue reading Deferential Realism: A Logic of Constraints