Solid System

A system with fixed structure, clear boundaries, and resistance to change. Solid systems are the rocks of the conceptual world—stable, predictable, reliable, and utterly inflexible. Once they're set, they stay set until something shatters them. Bureaucracies are solid systems—once the rules are in place, they resist all change until crisis forces collapse. Personal habits are solid systems—they persist despite all evidence they should change. Ideologies are solid systems—they maintain their shape regardless of contradictory information. Solid systems are comforting because they're predictable, but deadly because they can't adapt. The only way to change a solid system is to break it and start over, which is why revolutions are so violent and New Year's resolutions so often fail.

Example: "His thinking was a solid system—crystallized decades ago, resistant to new information, impervious to argument. You could throw evidence at it and watch it bounce off. When the world changed around him, his thinking didn't—it just became more irrelevant, more isolated, more solid. Eventually, it shattered under the weight of reality, but by then, he was too old to rebuild."

by Abzunammu February 16, 2026

Plasma System

A system of such high energy that its components are ionized—stripped of their usual bonds, moving at extreme speeds, generating intense fields of influence. Plasma systems are what happens when things get too hot to hold together in normal ways. They're chaotic, powerful, and dangerous—but also the source of most light in the universe. Social movements are plasma systems—when passion runs hot enough, normal structures ionize, people become charged, and the whole system glows with energy. Creative teams in flow are plasma systems—ideas move so fast that normal boundaries dissolve, and the energy becomes self-sustaining. Internet flame wars are plasma systems—charged particles (people) moving at high speed, generating more heat than light. Plasma systems are unstable, temporary, and unforgettable.

Example: "The protest started as a solid system—organized, structured, predictable. Then the energy built, passion ionized the crowd, and suddenly it was a plasma system—charged particles moving at high speed, generating their own field, impossible to control. The old structures dissolved, new ones emerged from the energy itself. It was terrifying and beautiful and couldn't last—but while it did, it lit up the world."

by Abzunammu February 16, 2026

Condensate System

A system that has cooled to the point where its components lose individual identity and begin behaving as a single quantum entity—a macroscopic manifestation of microscopic coherence. Condensate systems are what happens when parts become so aligned that they function as one. Perfectly synchronized teams are condensate systems—individual egos dissolve into collective flow. Deeply aligned relationships can become condensate systems—two people thinking, feeling, acting as one. Religious congregations in moments of collective transcendence become condensate systems—individual boundaries blur into shared experience. Condensate systems are rare, precious, and fragile—warm them slightly and they dissolve back into separate particles. They're the closest most of us come to experiencing unity.

Example: "The jazz quartet played for three hours, and somewhere in the second set, they became a condensate system. Individual egos dissolved, conscious thought stopped, and the music played itself through them. Later, none of them could remember who'd played what—they'd become a single quantum entity, expressing itself through four bodies. The audience felt it too. Everyone left changed, though no one could say exactly how."

by Abzunammu February 16, 2026

Bose-Einstein System

The ultimate condensate—a system cooled to near absolute zero where quantum effects become macroscopic and particles behave as a single wave rather than individual entities. In a Bose-Einstein system, individuality is completely lost; the system becomes a coherent whole, pulsing with a single rhythm, moving with a single purpose. This is what mystics call "union," what lovers glimpse in rare moments, what teams achieve in flow states so deep they forget themselves. Bose-Einstein systems are the theoretical endpoint of alignment—when all parts vibrate together at the same frequency, when difference dissolves into unity. They're almost impossible to achieve in human affairs—we're too warm, too individual, too separate. But in moments of profound connection—in love, in art, in collective purpose—we approach this state, touching the edge of unity before warming back into separate selves.

Bose-Einstein System Example: "At the peak of the performance, the entire cast achieved Bose-Einstein state—fifty individuals moving, breathing, thinking as one. No one led, no one followed; they simply were the performance, a single wave expressing through multiple bodies. The audience wept, not from emotion but from recognition—they were seeing what humans could become when separation dissolved. Then it ended, and everyone returned to being individuals, changed but separate again."

by Abzunammu February 16, 2026

Exotic System

A system that operates according to rules fundamentally different from those we normally encounter—alien physics, alternative logics, realities not our own. Exotic systems are what you get when you leave the familiar universe behind. An economy based on attention rather than money is an exotic system. A relationship based on something other than love, duty, or convenience is an exotic system. A consciousness that doesn't use neurons is an exotic system. Exotic systems are hard to understand because our tools don't fit—you can't measure them with familiar instruments, can't predict them with familiar models. They're also where new possibilities live—if you can learn their rules, you can access realities others can't even imagine.

Example: "He joined a company that operated as an exotic system—no hierarchy, no job titles, no fixed hours, no obvious rules. It looked like chaos, but chaos was just his unfamiliarity with their logic. Once he learned their rules (different from any he'd known), the system made perfect sense—just not sense he'd been trained to recognize. He either had to learn a new kind of thinking or fail. He learned."

by Abzunammu February 16, 2026

Esoteric System

A system whose rules are deliberately hidden—known only to initiates, revealed only to those who prove worthy. Esoteric systems are the opposite of open systems: they guard their secrets, protect their boundaries, maintain mystery. Secret societies are esoteric systems. Gnostic spiritual traditions are esoteric systems. Corporate strategy at the highest levels can be an esoteric system—the real rules known only to a few, the rest following instructions they don't understand. Esoteric systems create power through knowledge asymmetry—those who know the rules control those who don't. They're also where deep wisdom is preserved, protected from dilution by the unready. Whether an esoteric system is oppressive or protective depends on whether you're inside or outside, worthy or unworthy, initiated or excluded.

Example: "He spent years trying to understand his industry's real rules, the ones that determined success beyond the official story. Eventually, he realized it was an esoteric system—the actual knowledge was hidden, passed only to initiates, never written down. He had to find a mentor, prove himself, earn trust. Only then did the system reveal itself—and it was nothing like the official version."

by Abzunammu February 16, 2026

Dynamic System

A system that changes over time—evolving, adapting, responding to internal and external pressures. Dynamic systems are the opposite of static systems: they're alive, moving, never quite the same from moment to moment. Your body is a dynamic system—cells dying and being replaced, hormones fluctuating, learning accumulating. Your relationships are dynamic systems—growing closer or more distant, deepening or eroding, never fixed. Your understanding is a dynamic system—evolving with every new experience, every conversation, every thought. Dynamic systems are hard to predict because they're always becoming something new. They're also the only kind worth being in—static systems are dead.

Example: "He wanted his marriage to be static—the same love, the same connection, the same everything forever. But marriage is a dynamic system—it changes with every year, every challenge, every growth. When he tried to freeze it, it died anyway. He learned too late that you don't preserve dynamic systems; you participate in their becoming."

by Abzunammu February 16, 2026