I get what you are saying.
The relation here is inverted, “we have been trying to understand reality without first grounding ourselves in the empirical process that produces time and durable truth.”
no big world grounds out empirically.
bitcoin doesn’t do that.
anything empirical is a formalized bounded small world we create.
you are 100% correct the bounds create intelligibility
by accepting that relation, it solves the impasse: no need for an infinite regresss or uncaused cause
it’s just an acknowledgment of the finitude of our rational capacity.
all small worlds necessarily come from a big world, something beyond
time is a small world we understand, and it comes from a continuous big world present we don’t
trying to ground the source, origin, or genisis of a thing empirically is using a small world to justify a small world, and that’s impossible
hylomorphic / Neal
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2026-03-11 19:35:22 UTC
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