I totally feel you. It's a hard position to defend, though. For me it's more like- I'm against the trendy idea that intelligent people never really feel conviction about anything because they're always evaluating and processing new information. It's really just a way of saying, "I'm too much of a coward to actually feel strongly about anything because I'm afraid of what people will think of me." Strong minds and strong people draw their line in the sand, and only change their position if they are blindsided with information that convinces them otherwise.

Yes, great framing! Love it. And definitely props to Jack and Nick 👏

If bitcoin gives us fresh insight on the workings of our universe by showing quantized time, and allows us to reflect on our role in the process as it unfolds, including the possibility of a fractal order, and the original Creator, it's reassuring to see the immense value that it provides for us, and it's potential for healing and balancing the world. Perhaps bitcoin can give us a reference point for understanding our own existential value as well?

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what it means that God exists outside of time. It is obviously true, but hard to relate to because there is nothing to reference. Bitcoin may give us a fresh perspective on this.

Initially you think, "I'm an acting being, my decisions shape the future, and a utxo is simply transferring wealth on our behalf, it doesn't even know what it's doing or why it's valuable."
But then you start to realize that the most fundamental question for our own existence is "what is the meaning of all this?"
We know that we transform energy into structure with our decisions, but we don't know why, how, or if that structure has actual value, meaning, or purpose. We have grown enough self- awareness throughout this process to be able to ask these questions, but will seemingly never be given access to the answers. At least not in this life.

How crazy would it be if we were all just perfect money for some other society? 😅

I just realized that you already affirmed this in another conversation. So the reason I brought it up is that a utxo that only experiences reality when a state change occurs, would not have any way of observing signature inputs, or any other external input. Therefore, the question of whether these inputs exist in our universe would be also impossible to verify, right?

Fascinating to ponder, though. It reminds me thst the real fuel propelling this fractal mirror of time is us humans. If we don't interact with it, it ends. So is the Creator of our universe involved in this way as well? Or is our universe a fully contained system that propells itself? Somehow it always comes down to this question, doesn't it?

I finally read the abstract to your paper. I'm very much looking forward to digging into the meat of it. Thanks again for these absolutely game changing ideas.

In order to attempt to understand some of these concepts as a non-technical person, I imagine myself as a utxo within the network. My only experience of reality would be when I was either created or spent, and encoded into a new block. Does this make sense as a way to imagine the fractal relationship?

The trick is- ignore the groups keeping you down, or learn about them with indifference, and keep laser focused on the groups that lift you up.