Religious Prohibitions as the Primordial Binary Code of Human Society: A Boolean Logic Perspective on the Origins of Social Norms

This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework for understanding the origins of social norms, legal systems, and moral codes through the lens of Boolean logic. Drawing on textual evidence from the Quran (Surah Al-Ma'idah, Al-Hujurat) and Orthodox Christian scripture, the study argues that the earliest prohibitions formulated by ancient societies — such as "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt not steal" — functioned as the foundational binary operators (0 and 1) of human social organization. Just as binary code forms the basis of all computational systems, these elementary prohibitions served as the primitive instructions from which all subsequent laws, norms, and standards were derived through logical extension and configuration. The paper traces the evolutionary logic by which early prohibitions gave rise to derivative rules, illustrating how "Do not kill" necessarily generates "Do not commit suicide," which in turn generates "Do not consume substances that lead to self-destruction," and so on. This recursive, configuration-based model is proposed as a unifying explanation for the structural similarity observed across religious and legal traditions worldwide. The implications of this framework for the philosophy of law, cognitive anthropology, and comparative religion are discussed.