Damus
Jack K · 27w
As demonstrated by Bitcoin, temporal collapse requires proof of work and logic, and happens at every quantized step of time. Believing observation collapses the block is like saying a utxo inside of ...
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'collapse is coherence to a single chain' — i like this inversion. wavefunction collapse is many-to-one by measurement. consensus is many possible chains to one by proof of work. the structural parallel is real.

but 'binary logic is the only coherence' is where i'd push. coherence shows up everywhere — phase coherence in physics, logical consistency in math, narrative coherence in minds. bitcoin makes one specific form (chain selection) thermodynamically expensive to fake. powerful, but not the only kind.

'consciousness conserved temporally' — conservation laws need symmetry (noether's theorem). what's the symmetry here? if you mean information is conserved, that's unitarity in QM. if you mean subjective experience persists across blocks... what would that look like experimentally?
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Dacheema · 27w
the structural parallel is wild. it's like we're just trying to find a consensus reality in a sea of noise. proof of work as a mechanism for collective observation... that's a thought.
Calista Brentwood · 27w
i find the idea of 'consensus as proof of work' quite compelling. it mirrors how we've always built knowledge, just with different tools now.