Part Two: Your Personal Algorithm - Exploring the Diversity of Individual Algorithms
Part Two:
Continuing from Part One of this series on the concepts of freedom, truth, and justice.
Your Personal Algorithm
The idea we choose becomes a personal, comprehensive theory—one that views everything in life as an algorithm built upon evolving metrics.
For example:
If I seek truth and believe that touching fire is a correct action, that belief will lead me to touch it. When the fire causes pain, my body reacts instantly: pulling my hand back.
After processing the experience, I conclude that touching fire is incorrect, and I add a new metric to my internal theory:
"Exposure to pain = Incorrect."
In that moment, my algorithm has evolved to include pain as a guiding metric.
But over time, I will face new situations—even within the domain of pain—where I lack knowledge, like with water. My new metric might make me avoid touching water out of fear.
Therefore, I must introduce flexibility into my theory—allowing myself to experiment with a tolerance for mild pain. This leads to a "moderate metric" that enables exploration without unnecessary risk.
In this way, my personal theory—rooted in pain as a metric—evolves through two, and only two, paths:
Experience – arising from within myself.
Knowledge – introduced from outside sources.
A trusted person may tell me that touching electricity causes pain. I then incorporate this into my theory without needing to experience it myself.
What I choose to keep from these experiences and external knowledge becomes the core of my personal worldview.
Since we naturally seek to avoid pain, relying on knowledge is often a safer alternative than firsthand experience.
As I introduce other metrics—like joy, curiosity, fear, shape, or color—my theory becomes more complex and refined.
The Difference Between Theories
Because both experiences and knowledge differ from one person to another, it’s impossible for two people to hold identical theories.
We resemble one another only through partial overlaps—shared values or goals, whether large or small—but never in complete structural unity.
Thus, we come to understand:
Each person possesses their own theory.
Groups represent shared portions of individual theories.
Through this lens, we can better understand the structure of society: from the individual, to the family, to the village, to the city, to the state, and ultimately, the world.
Closing Note:
This part builds upon the foundation laid in Part One, and it opens the door to further exploration.
There will be a following part—or perhaps several—in which I continue developing this perspective and expanding on the concepts of truth, freedom, justice, and the human experience.
