Understanding Domains is Key
Definition: An operator’s domain is the physical and informational space wherein it has necessary and sufficient dominion to satisfy the needs of its operation(s). It consists at least of the three-dimensional space its body occupies, plus rights to any additional three-dimensional and informational space necessary to its existence.
All things possess the existential natural right to a place to be, a place to exist. This means that all things have a property right to at least the space they occupy. Most have an existential natural right to the additional space required by their operations.
A rock apparently only needs its three-dimensional space to fully operate its property right. If so, its domain, the extent of its dominion, is defined by its three-dimensional space. A tree, however, must be able to operate within space outside itself. These physical operations include drawing water, finding sunshine, and dissolving soil particles. These are existential requirements.
It also existentially requires access to informational space. In order to operate its spectrum of capabilities, it needs to know where to find the strongest sunshine, the most water, and the most desirable soil particles. (It is interesting to note that the rotation/operation of the planet enables the tree to locate and move into better irradiation space. This is part of the harmony found in nature.) This right to operate outside itself is a characteristic of nearly all operators. These operations are often both physical and informational and in competition with other operators’ activities.
In any given physical and/or informational space, there will exist multiple operators. For example, the gravitational operations of many celestial bodies will be present, forming a background environment. This operation provides both physical and informational assets. The information provided tells plants what direction they should grow.
Harmony, Conflict, and Goals
Almost every “thing” in the universe is engaged in some activity we call operations. Our star has gravitational dominion within its domain space, while the moon massages both the oceans and the land. Meanwhile, the Colorado River chews away, enlarging the Grand Canyon, where a searching owl, borne up by the air, leaves the fox hungry for the mouse he was stalking. Operators whose continued existence depends upon intruding into the domains of other operators must have the natural right to intrude. The exercise of natural rights literally and figuratively makes the world go around.
If we look carefully at nature, we see many operators exercising their existential rights in the same domain space and often striving for dominion in their domain. Although “striving” seems an anthropomorphic concept, it is nonetheless a good description of what we observe. There are both physical and informational consequences of their operations. Invasive species are a growing problem, the result of unnatural tampering with domains that creates a lopsided conflict over limited assets. Allergies are also a problem, often stemming from corruption in informational domains. Artificial sweeteners fool the body by predicting calories that do not arrive, and that corrupts metabolic processes that mishandle glucose and create hunger, leading to unneeded fat storage.
Nevertheless, through the exercise of natural rights of both conflicting and harmonious operators, the universe is propelled forward in its march to organize all matter and bring order out of chaos. Thus, the Creator has baked progress into the fundamental fabric of existence. For the believer, this principle can be a religious tenet. The key to comprehending it is that the existence of God is a secular fact.
Why the Universe Seems Alive
The Temporal Rights paradigm demonstrates that even inanimate objects have domains where they exist, dominions sufficient to meet the needs of their striving for success, and goals that direct that striving. These attributes give a feeling of life to everything and explain why Eastern Thought has resonated down through the centuries among millions of people. Native Americans typically have a very similar perception of the spiritual nature of nature.
We can exercise both better and more righteous dominion if we recognize the natural rights of all nature. It would seem that the woman’s instinctive choice (one of her operations) of a place and the man’s instinctive protection of that place when bound together in the marriage covenant, make a happy coalition for the proper location of their domain, where their dominion will be exercised for happiness by honoring one another’s and their children’s natural rights.
