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In other words, #Bitcoin doesn't know what it's storing.
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Yes, from the perspective of #Bitcoin as an isolated machine. But doesn't that miss the emergent property of nodes (and now the software a user chooses to run), developers, miners? -- and behind these the humans minds that use teleological language.

What is Bitcoin then? We can just change Bitcoin to store/process anything we like? Of any 'arbitrary' size and nature? If order is imposed, it isn't arbitrary (whichever way you define order) and without intention.