{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"brightmindsco wrote","author_name":"brightmindsco (npub124…6ys0r)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1249tdlkkwkv966uek7dd0duyl7x2ffdsyaugztsedrhwp3ktcflq66ys0r","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Much of my work centers around the nature of the mind. Humans, like all life, act as dissipative structures, and our behaviors are oriented toward facilitating the flow of energy within this cosmic order. But there is a fundamental dilemma at the core of the nature of our mind. On the one hand, we have the intellectual mind, which uses symbols and logic to utilize informational structures so that we can build the civilization we see around us. At the same time, physiologically speaking, I believe the intellectual mind acts as a kind of fog over our bodies, preventing us from properly experiencing the feeling of being aligned with that flow. It is when we calm the mind and otherwise act in alignment with nature that we can more vividly and truly realize our place in that cosmic flow: that which provides us meaning.\n\nSo it is interesting to think about what you're saying. What you call short-term memory is what we experience as the matter and energy of our waking moment (which I may argue is better experienced when we learn to remove the fog of the mind), and that collapses into long-term memory, which, in a sense, lies beyond us. While beyond us, we are always trying to come into contact with it, as it helps in our pursuit of alignment and felt sense of purpose. \n\nBitcoin, then, is us encoding that memory on that more eternal level, but in a way that is still more intelligible to our intellectual side. I have long believed that the computer is here to solve this ancient dilemma we have between the intellectual mind and the experiences we consider more holy and aligned with the cosmic order. Perhaps this is what Bitcoin fundamentally solves: it resolves the dilemma by capturing information that is helpful for our intellectual mind and encoding it into the eternal memory through energy, which is more aligned with the grander cosmic flow. In a way, bringing the two into one: giving us an even more powerful tool for self discovery and alignment with the flow."}