Jeff Russell

Hmmm, I hadn't considered the thought that Jesii could be an extension of the idea of the multiplicity of the single person of God, that's interesting. It also hints at something I wanted to talk about, but didn't feel I had enough to say yet: the link between slack and tamanaous.

As for "unchosen binding constraints," hmm, I'm not sure. A single mother who works two jobs to keep her kids fed might not feel she has totally "chosen" all of the binding constraints on her behavior, but I doubt she feels much slack. But maybe she could if she re-conceptualized? I'm not sure. One thing I'm running up against here is that I've read a lot of stuff lately, that I mostly agree with, that the idea that "all unchosen constraints should be removed" might be seen as one way to express the core drive behind the entire liberal current for the past ~300-400 years, and that taking that idea too far might be why we have a lot of the craziness we do in the world - the idea that we shouldn't even be constrained by little things like biology or physics, for example, and should push for a robo-utopia of infinite abundance throughout the stars.

Anyhow, where I currently stand, and might have said more clearly in the post, is that slack is a desirable spiritual/metaphysical quality, but it is not the only desirable spiritual/metaphysical quality, and very likely needs to be balanced against others.