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# Constraint and Determinism

How Nature is A Pattern With Limited Freedoms for Human and Animal Life, and Ethics

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<div id="digital-journal" class="digital journal">Book and Journal of Mattanaw</div>

<div id="digital-volume" class="volume">Volume I, Book II, §iii, Draft</div>

<div id="digital-titlepublisher" class="digital titlepublisher">Publisher: PlaynText, Tempe, Arizona</div>

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## <a name=publisher">Publisher</a>

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Published by PlainText/PlaynText, Inc, companies wholly owned by the author, Mattanaw, Mattanaw, (formerly "Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh"). Mattanaw is a legal name and not a pseudonym. While owned by Mattanaw, the Book and Journal is published by PlainText/Playntext, a large organization, comprised of many contributors, at a substantial investment. It is not self-published.

Printed in Tempe, Arizona, in the United States of America.

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## <a name="academics-and-peer-review">Academics and Peer Review</a>

The Book and Journal of Mattanaw is an Academic Journal having a comprehensive peer review process to produce high quality scholarly articles. This peer review process is *more* and *not less* advanced than the peer review process of other major scholarly journals.

Several rounds of peer review are conducted for each issue, by a number of external academics and industry professionals, using the double-blind approach and other methodologies, before a book issue is released.

The process is well defined, scholarly, better than industry standard, and partly proprietary due to the innovativeness of the approach. However, parts of the confidential approach are standardized, and therefore already know to the public. The smaller interior peer review process is an open and transparent process that can be reviewed by the readership and members of the public, for inquiry and comment. The remainder is temporarily proprietary and confidential.

This process is more stringent and more open than many similar peer review processes due by our additional process expertise typically not existing with other publishing companies. Publishing companies often do not have experience in business process, software process, and other organizational workflows. This organization has expertise in this domain that is consummate by comparison to what is available at other publishers, and it may be the case, that such publisher's would rely on the expertise of this organization. The peer review process utilizes a standard double-blind peer review but this is merely incorporated into the larger process which has greater complexity, and methodical sophistications missed by other approaches. Therefore it is an enlarged peer review process of higher quality. The peer-review process itself is also subject to periodic improvement, quality testing, and scientific debugging and examination.

The total review process, that is inclusive of peer review, has a very high requirement for making revisions for final release in book-issue form, and drafts are rejected continuously until they reach a level of quality needed. Once they reach the quality required, if ever, they are accepted. The rejection rate is greater than with a standard academic journal at greater than 99 percent.

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The articles produced by the Book and Journal are not constrained to a specific audience, but instead uses a more inclusive, less discriminative approach, more flexibly communicative, while maintaining within a more sophisticated presentation, the expected presentability of academic readers and scholars. The content however, is not expected to be entirely unreachable and inaccessible to public audiences that are given access to the reading materials. This may be contrasted with a non-inclusive peer review system, that is discriminatory and exclusive of readers forcing submitters to prepare works for release in for-pay only retrieval systems.

In some cases, book issues have content that was syndicated to other Journals, meaning in addition to the process used by this journal, content has also been peer reviewed by the editorship, boards, or peer review staff of other journals. This makes the peer-review process of content for this journal especially stringent, and of course, if published elsewhere, it was deemed of good quality by one or more additional organizations.

Those texts that are transparently in a draft state for readers to see development in progress have not yet entered the peer review process, but enter the process at the time they go into post-draft, print issue candidacy. Once the candidate issue is approved, it is released as a standard book issue. All those texts marked with numberings, for book, issue, edition, and not only "draft" are those that have undergone the peer review process.

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## <a id="master-author-start" name="author">Author</a>

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*The Author and Editor-in-Chief, by his enterprise client's headquarters in San Diego, California*

*Artist/Author: The Honorable Dr.<sup>[9](notes.html#9)</sup> [Mattanaw](open-health-mattanaw.html), Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh, Retired*

Interdisciplinarian with Immeasurable Intelligence. Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community.<sup>[6](notes.html#6)</sup>

- Masters Business & Economics, [Harvard University](christopher-matthew-cavanaugh-mattanaw-harvard-id-card.jpg) (In Progress)
- Attorney, Pro Se, Litigation, Trial, Depositions, Contracts (E.g. State of Alaska v. Pugh, et. al., Alaska Superior and Supreme Courts)<sup>[4](notes.html#4)</sup>
- B.S. Psychology, University of Maryland, 4.0, Summa Cum Laude<sup>[1](notes.html#1)</sup>
- B.S. Computer & Information Science, University of Maryland, 3.91, Magna Cum Laude<sup>[2](notes.html#2)</sup>
- B.A. Philosophy, University of Maryland.<sup>[3](notes.html#3)</sup>
- G.E.D., State of Maryland, Montgomery County, 1999.
- Lifetime Member of the High Intelligence Community, [Mensa Lifetime Member](open-health-mattanaw.html#mensa-lifetime-membership)

Former Chief Architect, Adobe Systems

Current President/Advisor, Social Architects and Economists International.

CEO PlaynText | CEO PlainText

Contact:

- [cmcavanaugh@g.harvard.edu](mailto:cmcavanaugh@g.harvard.edu)
- [christopher.matthew.cavanaugh@member.mensa.org](mailto:christopher.matthew.cavanaugh@member.mensa.org)
- [mattanaw@mattanaw.org](mailto:mattanaw@mattanaw.org)

Resumé

- [Professional Resumé](resume.pdf)

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## <a name="contents">Contents</a>

- [Academics and Peer Review](#academics-and-peer-review) 
- [Author](#author)
- [Edit History](#edit-history)
- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Predictability Of The Larger Quantity Of Reality](#predictability-of-the-larger-quantity-of-reality)
- [Close Relationships And Increasing Knowledge Of Another](#close-relationships-and-increasing-knowledge-of-another)
- [Becoming Aware of One's Own Pattern And Growth Potential](#becoming-aware-of-ones-own-pattern-and-growth-potential)
- [Expectations of Learning And The Direction of Education](#expectations-of-learning-and-the-direction-of-education)
- [Mattanaw's Law And Simple Nervous Systems](#mattanaws-law-and-simple-nervous-systems)
- [Constraint As The Defining Metric Of Freedom, And Non-Use of The Word Freedom](#constraint-as-the-defining-metric-of-freedom-and-non-use-of-the-word-freedom)
- [Free Will As Unworthy of Discussion](#free-will-as-unworthy-of-discussion)
- [Education To Determine Thinking Pathways](#education-to-determine-thinking-pathways)
- [Marketing And Propaganda To Continue Educational Messaging For Alternative Goals](#marketing-and-propaganda-to-continue-educational-messaging-for-alternative-goals)
- [Reliability of Science Regarding Laws and Mathematical Representations](#reliability-of-science-regarding-laws-and-mathematical-representations)
- [Reliability of Machines, Electronics, and Technologies](#reliability-of-machines-electronics-and-technologies)
- [Genetics As Fixed Instructions of Development](#genetics-as-fixed-instructions-of-development)
- [Usability And Benefits of Business, Organizational, Military and Moral Processes](#usability-and-benefits-of-business-organizational-military-and-moral-processes)
- [Desirability of Predeterminations](#desirability-of-predetermination)
- [Analyzing The Causality Of Your Own Behavior For Moral Purposes](#analyzing-the-causality-of-your-own-behavior-for-moral-purposes)
- [Can't Find Or Confirm Randomness, And Non-Utilities](#cant-find-or-confirm-candomness-and-non-utilities)
- [Human, Animal, And Elemental Shortcomings](#human-animal-and-elemental-shortcomings)
- [List of Facts of Predetermination](#list-of-facts-of-predetermination)
- [Understanding and Relacing The Concept Of Responsibility](#understanding-and-relacing-the-concept-of-responsibility)
- [Avoiding Discussing Regret And Desired Alterations To History By Redirecting Imagination To Future](#avoiding-discussing-regret-and-desired-alterations-to-history-by-redirecting-imagination-to-future)
- [The Universe And Human Life As Within A Preloaded Playing Video](#the-universe-and-human-life-as-within-a-preloaded-playing-video)
- [How The Deterministic Perspective Is Required For Moral Advancement And Societal Progress](#how-the-deterministic-perspective-is-required-for-moral-advancement-and-societal-progress)

## <a name="edit-history">Edit History</a>

- *527 Wanattomians, Epoch 1768022573, Friday, January 09, 2026 22:22:53, United States of America*
- *521 Wanattomians, Epoch 1767501603, Saturday, January 03, 2026 21:40:03, United States of America*
  - Expansion of the contents from the initial state, to include more than author, edit history, and introduction sections. Added 17 sections to write within.
- *Created Monday, March 13<sup>th</sup>, 2023, at 3:33 PM Alaska Time*
- *Conceived ~23-25 years ago, with earlier ideas being relevant. Earlier handwritten writings to be referenced.*

## <a name="introduction">Introduction</a>

>> 'The Demonstration of Determinism Eventually Becomes "Just Show Them Anything And Everthing'" &mdash; Mattanaw

This work on constraint and determinism is very important for this total book and journal on ethics, and has been practically applied in my life since I was a late teenager, and my review has since been refined.

More on this work soon.


## <a name="predictability-of-the-larger-quantity-of-reality">Predictability Of The Larger Quantity Of Reality</a>

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## <a name="close-relationships-and-increasing-knowledge-of-another">Close Relationships And Increasing Knowledge Of Another</a>

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## <a name="becoming-aware-of-ones-own-pattern-and-growth-potential">Becoming Aware of One's Own Pattern And Growth Potential</a>

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## <a name="mattanaws-law-and-simple-nervous-systems">Mattanaw's Law And Simple Nervous Systems</a>

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## <a name="constraint-as-the-defining-metric-of-freedom-and-non-use-of-the-word-freedom">Constraint As The Defining Metric Of Freedom, And Non-Use of The Word Freedom</a>

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## <a name="free-will-as-unworthy-of-discussion">Free Will As Unworthy of Discussion</a>

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## <a name="education-to-determine-thinking-pathways">Education To Determine Thinking Pathways</a>

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## <a name="marketing-and-propaganda-to-continue-educational-messaging-for-alternative-goals">Marketing And Propaganda To Continue Educational Messaging For Alternative Goals</a>

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## <a name="reliability-of-science-regarding-laws-and-mathematical-representations">Reliability of Science Regarding Laws and Mathematical Representations</a>

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## <a name="reliability-of-machines-electronics-and-technologies">Reliability of Machines, Electronics, and Technologies</a>

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## <a name="genetics-as-fixed-instructions-of-development">Genetics As Fixed Instructions of Development</a>

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## <a name="usability-and-benefits-of-business-organizational-military-and-moral-processes">Usability And Benefits of Business, Organizational, Military and Moral Processes</a>

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## <a name="desirability-of-predetermination">Desirability of Predeterminations</a>

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## <a name="cant-find-or-confirm-candomness-and-non-utilities">Can't Find Or Confirm Randomness, And Non-Utilities</a>

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## <a name="human-animal-and-elemental-shortcomings">Human, Animal, And Elemental Shortcomings</a>

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## <a name="list-of-facts-of-predetermination">List of Facts of Predetermination</a>

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## <a name="understanding-and-relacing-the-concept-of-responsibility">Understanding and Relacing The Concept Of Responsibility</a>

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## <a name="avoiding-discussing-regret-and-desired-alterations-to-history-by-redirecting-imagination-to-future">Avoiding Discussing Regret And Desired Alterations To History By Redirecting Imagination To Future</a>

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## <a name="the-universe-and-human-life-as-within-a-preloaded-playing-video">The Universe And Human Life As Within A Preloaded Playing Video</a>

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## <a name="how-the-deterministic-perspective-is-required-for-moral-advancement-and-societal-progress">How The Deterministic Perspective Is Required For Moral Advancement And Societal Progress</a>

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## <a name="references">References</a>

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