Concept Guides

These guides translate major ideas in Dogmatic Coterminous Impermanence into direct, ordinary language. Each page begins with the question a reader is likely to ask, then points back to the canonical text where the idea is developed with greater precision.

Concept Guides are explanatory maps. DCI, its canonical supplements, and the published essays remain the source texts.

• GuideWhat is human agency?Agency as participatory influence within actual conditions.
• GuideWhat is systems thinking?Feedback loops, path dependence, complexity, and the boundary between systems science and DCI.
• GuideWhat does entropy mean outside physics?How DCI uses entropy analogically and keeps physics and ethics in distinct domains.
• GuideWhat is stewardship?The disciplined use of power in care of consequence.
• GuideWhat is Recursive Agency?How present agency alters the conditions inherited by later agency.
• GuideHow does impermanence affect responsibility?Why changing conditions make revision, succession, and release ethically relevant.
• GuideWhy do systems require maintenance?Drift, deferred cost, and the recurring work that keeps forms viable.
• GuideCan ethics follow from entropy?DCI's answer to the is-ought problem and the role of Recursive Agency.
• GuideWhat are gradients in DCI?A plain-language account of unequal reach, capacity, access, and consequence.
• GuideHow do power and accountability relate?Power dynamics, information asymmetry, responsible leadership, and proportional accountability.

Readers who already know the vocabulary can go directly to the DCI corpus, the Doctrinal Lexicon, or the essays.