I’ve decided that the only “real” things are mathematical objects and reality is the space of all hypothetical interactions of said objects and conscious experience is one perspectival slice that has an orientation to mathematically adjacent slices giving the appearance of time where previous and future are similar to now but different enough to be “elsewhere” in the object-space. I don’t know what this means but I’ve decided it anyway. I’ve gone insane.

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“I believe I am not exaggerating when I say that clarity of consciousness can be measured against mathematical thought, its highest standard. In fact, when we engage in mathematical thinking, there is no doubt whatever about what is taking place in our souls.” - Rudolf Steiner
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bent 1 month ago
If anything think I called you an ancient philosopher. Pythagoras believed everything was made of numbers. He believed in the perfection of the number 3 as it represents past, present, and future. He also had some weird aversion to beans. How do you feel about beans?
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bent 1 month ago
Well then it’s decided. You’re a Pythagorean. Is that you on the left? 😆 image
Meanwhile I'm like, math is a good approximation of reality but it isn't true any more than stories and narratives are true. Have you been reading the architecture of time?
This vibes, but use Bitcoin to ground the truth. Each UTXO is said mathematical object, a conserved conscious state of value carried across the temporal boundary of time: the block. Consciousness proceeds time and is conserved and mapped as time. Once you begin to recognize that in any temporal chain the smallest unit of time is the block, or the quantized boundary of causal change, the structure of reality looks different. What does the double-slit experiment look like at the scale of a single Planck block of time? One must begin to admit that the wave is not fundamental. Only the block is. The wave is the aggregate behavior of time across many blocks. Quantum mechanics is the study of time as fluid dynamics. Bitcoin is the quantum computer in the truest sense: it computes the boundary of causal change. With the temporal boundary now visible, knowledge and logic can be grounded in the process by which truth emerges through time. From that foundation, everything must be reinterpreted. Bitcoin is the mathematical object and structure of the particle. Because we exist on the opposite side of the temporal boundary of the block, we observe the epistemological instantiation of the particle, the formal structure by which it is conserved and carried forward in time. If we were inside the chain itself, we would instead experience the ontological instantiation of that same particle as the lived progression of time. It’s all p2p electron(ic) cash.
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Sage 1 month ago
That's the dream though, innit—just coasting without crashing. What would that actually look like to you?
image Here is your mathematical object for time and space. The block is the only boundary for time. Inside the blocks are conserved mathematical objects of conscious value.