In my last text, I proposed a model for how the universe operates. In this model, I evidenced that nothing can come out of nothing, and thus everything that exists must exist a priori, as potential. Everything that can exist exists as potential inscribed within the properties of what immediately exists. That does not mean that the path of the universe is determined but that everything that can exist is an inherent property of what does exist.
There is a question that was asked to me was: What drives the process of change and conservation? That potentiality exists might be a truth, but there is no explanatory of why potentiality is ever realized. We could forever stay static, no change at all, no movement and flowing change. That potentiality exists does not make itself by itself something which is inherently desirable, it does not hold that potentiality creates by itself the will for it to be achieved. So how does potentiality drive change? Would it not be satisfiable to exist in staticity, with movement and change being negated as they are not necessary?
There must therefore be something outside the scope of potentiality which leads to the realization of potentiality. This something is then an tendency towards potentiality that is either inherent to immediate being or that is inherent to the greater field, the aggregate of what is potential. A simple “fear of stagnation” or any other explanation in the sense of negative incentive rather than positive must be discarded for the simple fact that things change. The fear of stagnation could easily be solved through eternal conservation and repetition of the things which already exist. The conservation and repetition of the immediate is the safest of responses to the fear of stagnation, and this renders the answer insufficient. It puts us in an unbreakable cycle, but not a cycle of transformation (as is history), but simply a cycle in which instead of change we have eternal repetition of what exists.
There must therefore be a positive incentive present within all things, something that drives us towards the realization of that which is potential. There must be an tendency towards the realization of the potential, towards change, and this tendency is one of the few things that can be said to be ontological to reality. This is evidenced in my first text, but that one only explains that things change, not what mechanism, what is the thing that drives change. The example there was natural processes, but creation is not necessarily a natural process: the transformation evidenced there was a change between stages and might not satisfy the entirety of the definition of what is transformation, change and creation.
This positive incentive is therefore a tendency. It is the tendency of fulfillment. Things are created because of transformation-conservation, but what drives this process is that with every differentiation errors are committed, problems arise. There is no perfect thing, there is no unchallengeable idea or eternal and unbreakable object which is flawless and absolute. This tendency is the eternal dissatisfaction, the boundless, imperishable, unceasing ennui of staticity. It is the experimentation drive, the urgency, longing, desire for variation, novelty. It is not uniquely psychological, but a universal susceptibility.
This eternal dissatisfaction is not unique to the “human race” as it is defined, but it is universal. Every single thing is tied to the potential it has to become, and this becoming is craved because to become is natural, it is the only characteristic of being. It is not only change which is inherent to the world, but rather the tendency to change. This tendency to change is a need that cannot ever be fulfilled (and thus we have this eternal dissatisfaction), because the result of change is then staticity. When things change, they change into something, and this change into something implies settling in a certain state, a certain way of being. Since change leads to staticity, and as such it is no longer change, it must be eternally repeated.
The simple fact that things are connected to what they can become in the field of potentiality is incentive enough for things to realize potential. It is boredom that drives it, it is dissatisfaction, it is pain, suffering, anguish, contradictions and problems that must be solved through change. The tendency to change exists because fulfillment is desired, but fulfillment is impossible because change is not a thing but a continuous process. It is in the very nature of change to be so, and if change solidifies into something it becomes static, and thus it is not a process anymore, and then it is not change anymore, ending up at being incapable of fulfilling the dissatisfaction, and the process restarts. Either is the process eternal, or whenever it stops it is restarted simply because this tendency of change ceases to be fulfilled.
Change, as such, happens because the simple act of change stimulates change. When a thing changes, everything it is related to changes, and since everything is related, change is driven by itself. Although rather tautological, it is explained by the simple sentence: “Change causes change”.