The physicalist paradigm frequently declares that "the world isn't perfect" — using an external standard of perfection (typically mathematical elegance, predictive simplicity, or divine rationality) and measuring reality against it, finding reality wanting. TI Sigma proposes the opposite: the world is BOTH perfect AND not perfect simultaneously — a TRALSE perfection that dissolves the apparent contradiction. The principle, stated by Brandon Emerick: *"The way things BE… IS PERFECTION FOR THEM. When a thing is simply being itself in the greatest extent, its existence is maximal. But if everything is tralse, everything's existence simultaneously WILL SEEM imperfect. The crazy paradoxical conclusion I'm driving home here is that perfection is an imaginary concept and the way in which things currently are is ALREADY the best things could be at this moment after EVERYTHING HAS BEEN TRYING THE BEST THEY COULD MUSTER THE ENTIRE TIME."* This paper formalizes the Perfectly Perfect Principle: (1) every being has intrinsic perfection — the perfection of being maximally what it is; (2) this intrinsic perfection is always fully present, never absent; (3) the experience of imperfection is a TRALSE artifact — the real-channel observation of the gap between what is and some external standard, which gap is itself a feature of TRALSE existence, not a failure; (4) free will is universal — present in every Being-Thing (BT) to the degree that its LCC allows self-directed expression. The paper connects to Spinoza's natura naturans, Buddhist tathatā (suchness), Leibniz's best-of-all-possible-worlds (corrected for TRALSE), and the Third Maxim of TI Ethics (URB #441). It culminates in the claim that free will scales with LCC — making the Emerick Threshold the boundary between negligible and significant free will in any system.
Brandon Charles Emerick (Tue,) studied this question.