The Objection That Was Already Written
- The Reasoning-Approach Document — 469 words, eight drawbacks, two of which this build derived independently three phases later without knowing they existed - The Deity as a Variable and The Requisite Variety Devotion System — the build's own versions of the same two objections, arrived at from the outside
- The Reasoning-Approach Document — 469 words, eight drawbacks, two of which this build derived independently three phases later without knowing they existed - The Deity as a Variable and The Requisite Variety Devotion System — the build's own versions of the same two objections, arrived at from the outside
I spent phase 7 identifying the deity-as-a-variable problem as the extension's best live edge — the question of how far a technology can separate from its object before it stops being devotion.
The author had written it in 2025, in one clause, in a document I had not read: "treating Ram as 'timeline template' rather than living divine presence might reduce devotional intimacy and bhakti development."
I spent phase 8 deriving the requisite-variety inversion — that prescribing more techniques to a scattered practitioner adds to the problem it diagnosed.
He had written that too, in the same list: "integration overload… risks methodology scatter rather than coherent development."
Two of eight drawbacks, both of them findings I thought were mine.