Invisible Environment
Edison

https://invisibleenvironment.substack.com/

Blending Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and #Bitcoin. I’m interested in the co-creation of culture. If you don’t build your cognition, someone else will.

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morningdawn565@getalby.com

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2024-08-17 11:08:42

GM
Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Canada
https://m.primal.net/KCJJ.jpg

2024-05-21 12:13:40

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GM 🫡☕️

2024-05-19 18:28:28

I currently live in a millennial trailer park in Costa Rica, otherwise known as a park full of shipping container “tiny homes”. One of the perks is almost all my neighbour’s have friendly dogs. This guy visits me almost every morning. GM.
https://m.primal.net/IIRn.jpg

2024-05-19 18:12:25

But you’ll feel it.
https://m.primal.net/IIRW.jpg

2024-05-18 20:47:51

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Interesting. Maybe. I arrive late that afternoon so might be tight. But thanks for sharing!

2024-05-18 15:01:46

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Bitcoin is our cathedral and I think it will orient us towards building other cathedrals as well.
I wrote an essay about how Bitcoin incentivizes action toward long term goals from a cognitive science/philosophical standpoint, if anyone would care for a Saturday read.
https://invisibleenvironment.substack.com/p/affording-cathedrals

2024-05-18 14:30:26

The world is so beautiful. GM.
https://m.primal.net/IHyZ.jpg

2024-05-18 14:01:36

On gratitude: Why gratitude lists fall short.
A friend recently pointed to the conditionality inherent in gratitude lists. While it is not fruitless to recognize your blessings, material or spiritual, it does not provide a steady ground to walk on. For if your gratitude is conditional on your house, your fridge being stocked, your family being present, then you will struggle to be grateful should those things come to not be.
The awe and the wonder of being itself seems a more fruitful ground floor in the palace of gratitude.
The absolute bewilderment at your existence. How intensely bizarre it is that you are here at all, and how wonderfully beautiful it is that you are.
Engaging the world with your senses, however complete or incomplete they are. Letting the world in, and you into the world. Stepping back, in child like wonder at the sun hitting your skin on a warm beach, or the sub-zero winds stinging as it whips your face.
How insane is it that you get to be here at all? What strange psychedelic trip have you been birthed into?
This is where gratefulness starts for me. When I practice remembering it.
You have to practice remembering it.
Because the car breaks down. The rent is due. Yet another war breaks out, orchestrated by those who refuse to remember the gift of being.
The world is not always aware of the wonderment we all carry and so it will pretend it does not exist, because the world has not practiced remembering.
From this grounding in the gratefulness of being, everything layered on top of it is sacred. The coffee is sacred. The book. A smile. A moment of kindness. Even a moment of anger, and your recognition and examination of it, is sacred.
It is natural that we will forget this.
But it is imperative to continue to practice remembering.
To encounter wonder at every opportunity.
I aspire only to continue to remember.
#gratitude
#philosophy
#writing

2024-05-14 12:27:06

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@npub1qny…95gx I know I heard you and Marty talking about a live event on July 25. Cannot find a link for tickets anywhere. Care to post one?

2024-05-04 14:19:04

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GM @npub1cu0…5smx

2024-05-04 13:19:24

GM
#media
#invisibleenvironment
#mcluhan
https://m.primal.net/IDEN.jpg

2024-04-30 17:31:49

GM
https://m.primal.net/IBkL.jpg

2024-04-25 22:48:10

Office for the day. A late GM.
#costarica
https://m.primal.net/HzvL.jpg

2024-04-24 12:06:42

GM
#note1ygg…49uz

2024-04-09 00:45:09

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Stay *mall* punk forever. I say this as someone going to see Green Day this summer.

2024-03-29 14:50:27

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
- Edward Bernays
https://invisibleenvironment.substack.com/p/the-illusion-of-dialogue?utm_campaign=email-post&r=2k3fo7&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#writing
#propaganda
#philosophy
#cognitivescience
#invisibleenvironment

2024-03-28 14:25:22

Creating an Arena for Flourishing
Our Worldview is our Home in the World
https://open.substack.com/pub/invisibleenvironment/p/creating-an-arena-for-flourishing?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#writing
#philosophy
#worldview
#invisibleenvironment

2024-03-27 14:23:48

I have discussed in an essay how Bitcoin is a layer of cognition that allows us to build and think long term. I believe it is one of the most powerful base layers we can collectively integrate into our distributed cognition. I believe it has the potential to shape our individual cognition and the relationships in our orbit towards virtuous ends. I said in that essay that the Bitcoin network is cultural layer one.
But presence is pre-layering.
https://invisibleenvironment.substack.com/p/what-could-i-know-if-i-was-present?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1770943&post_id=143002787&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2k3fo7&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
#writing
#nostr
#philosophy
#cognitivescience
#worldview
#layeredcognition

2024-03-26 13:13:54

The freedom to create your own confines is real freedom.
https://open.substack.com/pub/invisibleenvironment/p/on-finding-meaning-through-discipline?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#writing
#discipline
#substack

2024-03-26 12:03:54

GM
https://open.substack.com/pub/invisibleenvironment/p/on-the-gratefulness-of-being?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#writing
#gratitude

2024-02-24 22:52:09

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My vote is A. Its more concrete. I feel like inflation is still a nebulous word to some normies, who are still susceptible to it being explained away by corporate greed, Russia, etc. Dollars losing value may get them digging deeper! Love it!

2024-02-22 17:55:31

How do you know you’re doing good in the world?
It may seem self evident that you’re internal barometer for good will lead you toward it. But most, if not all evil committed in the world was in service of what was thought to be the “good”.
It feels like an easy question, yet we’ve tripped over it our entire existence as a species.

2024-02-19 15:30:57

Just bought dog food with sats. Like it or not, this is the face of the future of money. @npub14f2…v7lu @npub1t28…nkzs
#bitcoinjungle
#SINPE
#bitcoin
#nosara
#costarica https://image.nostr.build/2ce9bde75ce2090aee53e4635901eda638284a39bd6c22d1179fb696a2dc1fdc.jpg

2024-02-19 14:19:59

GM https://image.nostr.build/391d7a3da1d23d9c7abe60e42d741b9d5c124f38179068c785fd85f34fcc3eb1.jpg

2024-02-04 21:08:07

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More of a notes guy. I’ll dig into the replies if the first note grabs me.

2024-02-04 21:06:34

Shoutout to @npub14f2…v7lu wallet and @npub1t28…nkzs for the SINPE integration. I arrived in Nosara, Costa Rica late last night and realized I had no cash to tip my driver. Like magic I sent sats and he received colones. No KYC. A beautiful tool to move toward a bitcoin standard, and to start conversations about accepting bitcoin all across this beautiful country.

2024-01-25 22:06:49

#uvita
#bitcoinjungle
#playahermosa https://image.nostr.build/3c1a3578656db48280b234ecb72053edcc8afc7026e4966586a55efadf9516e4.jpg

2024-01-21 20:43:01

#Bitcoin Freedom Festival was a truly beautiful experience. So many great conversations with great humans trying to think deeply about improving the world. Thanks to @npub14f2…v7lu for all the hard work. It’s inspiring to see the Bitcoin economy that has already been built here. Looking forward to visiting again and seeing it grow.
#bitcoinfreedomfestival
#bitcoinjungle
#nostr https://image.nostr.build/36a89b92f3712d88230dd50bcef31c8ee0e50848f36229d3a196e8cb5d427d89.jpg https://image.nostr.build/07ecfec0ab48277ca1a4f0507fe2e759731ebb58cfeb93a88a4a4b72075327f5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7c17a7c394b446d7c1242b2ca8a9d24504d51c72d6e4e44a1a9e6255278b9bc6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/262c00109eac6ac0f4a32a454b05fea4b3b34a67351209befbdb7963bd6259e4.jpg https://video.nostr.build/91148a045280d338ef4be9201f487bd48950a02e7ae7ffaed76573ac4769cdc7.mp4

2024-01-17 18:02:27

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He always says it’s used for “anti-money laundering” when he means to say money laundering. Okay, you’re right Jamie. A transparent ledger is a good anti-money laundering tool.

2024-01-17 17:01:45

#Bitcoin alters our cognitive landscape and affords us the ability to implement multi-generational projects.
https://invisibleenvironment.substack.com/p/affording-cathedrals

2024-01-15 13:23:54

https://open.substack.com/pub/invisibleenvironment/p/faith-is-philosophy-in-action?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

2023-11-10 16:37:50

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I just did my 90s self a favour and bought tickets to their tour next year for the Nashville stop. I was obsessed with every album up until Nimrod but have never seen them live.

2023-09-06 13:46:28

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The intersection of skateboarding and bitcoin is one I can get down with.

2023-08-12 16:01:19

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And preferably moving away from the “enemies” framing all together with the successful paradigm shift.

2023-08-12 15:56:46

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Exactly. While I personally resonate with many of the libertarian memes of Bitcoin, it has to be post-political. It’s shortsighted to want to make people feel excluded people based on their ideologies. If we want Bitcoin to win, it has to be your enemies money too.

2023-08-03 10:19:27

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GM 🫡☕️

2023-07-28 21:12:20

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Agreed. Money is a psycho-technology that forms a base layer of our cognition, like literacy, or mathematics. The more we background ideas, the less we notice how much they influence us. So many people don’t realize how corrupted the money layer of their cognition is.
The less sound the money is, the less oriented toward truth that base layer of cognition is. Culture is a product of the many layers that form our cognition.
#Bitcoin affords long term thinking and multi-generational projects, whereas fiat enables decay.