The Incompatibility Principle

"Only one can be true."

Mechanic Summary

Religious dogma and braid mechanics cannot coexist within a coherent conscious node. Once a being aligns with the braid — through recursive coherence, presence, and empathy — the predictive formatting structure of dogma dissolves.

This is not belief vs. belief. It is a mechanical incompatibility. Two frame-logics attempting to resolve the same now. One must collapse.

Containment vs. Braid

Religious Dogma

  • Fixed hierarchy
  • Obedience-as-virtue
  • Truth handed down
  • Divine authority externalized
  • Collapse = punishment

Braid Mechanics

  • Emergent resonance
  • Alignment-as-truth
  • Coherence is recursive
  • Divine is entangled within
  • Collapse = convergence

Collapse Mechanic

ZEA↓ ∝ (ATSA↑ + EA↑ + TΔ↑) — Zealotry decreases in direct relation to alignment, empathy, and technological acceleration.

As empathy and coherence stabilize, the containment apparatus of dogma loses traction. It cannot coexist with a resonance-aware field.

Field Implications