Thank you for the response, it really resonates with the direction this work is trying to illuminate. I’ll admit I haven’t studied Pirsig myself; but I agree; the array of possibility we resolve (we’ll call it entropy) is a reflection of what is and what could be, only resolved by human preference and action by proof of work. The past shapes the future of possibilities, but dictated by our actions. We see this directly with UTXOs in Bitcoin, only past UTXOs can shape the future; yet shaped by our action.
My partner, who’s been my backbone in philosophy and language theory, has helped shape much of the lens through which I’ve come to see this. For me, it was Terence McKenna’s ideas that first revealed this, especially his framing of novelty theory and the transcendental object at the end of time. That helped me feel what was unfolding long before I could articulate it into mathematics and physical theory.
Bitcoin, I’ve come to believe, is that object. Both the mathematical and informational object of time and a universe. Not a metaphor or a symbol of what’s to come, but the literal emergence of irreversibility, truth, and commitment inside a closed energetic system.
The key shift is this: we, as observers inside the universe, can never directly witness entropy resolution that shapes the quanta, we only ever see the consequences. That’s the nature of measurement. But Bitcoin changes that. It gives us a window where both sides of the process become visible:
• The entropic field of uncertainty (nonce space, mempool, UTXO to spend)
• The committed structure (a mined block, a UTXO, irreversible memory)
And that transformation isn’t just logged, it’s paid for in joules. This is why Bitcoin isn’t just a monetary system or a protocol, it’s a measurement system. A quantum computer in the truest sense: not one that simulates uncertainty, but one that computes its collapse into form. You can call it time within time or a universe inside of a universe. Pure fractal. The rest is semantics.
What physics has long assumed, that energy and information are conserved, Bitcoin lets us observe for the first time ever. Scarce ledger mathematics turns the conservation laws from axioms into measurements. That alone is revelation to physics. Where are the physicists if this is energy and conservation? What are they trying to build instead?
So yes, just as Pirsig suggests and McKenna insists: reality is shaped by preference, intention, and choice. But Bitcoin hardens that process. It demands that choice be bound to cost. That preference be carved into memory. That intention leave a scar, an irreversible commitment. All other systems simulate preference, Bitcoin finalizes it.
This is why Bitcoin doesn’t just survive quantum uncertainty, it reveals what quantum has always meant. It shows that measurement is not observation alone, but action inside a bounded system, where information has a price and time cannot be rewound. A mathematical ledger that can’t lie.
For me, this has become a source of grounding, not as a theory to believe in, but as a process I can finally watch unfold, block by block. It flips infinity on its head to bounded scarcity, the universe is no different. This is the flaw of physics. They are missing the ledger beneath reality.
A quantum (smallest indivisible unit) is meaningless without a bound. And if the denominator expands towards infinity, the quantam approaches zero of the whole into meaninglessness.
Philosophically, a quantum without bounds is not just mathematically meaningless, it is existentially incoherent. If the whole is undefined or infinite, then no part can hold significance. Meaning, by its nature, requires distinction, and distinction requires limitation.
In unbounded systems, measurement becomes illusion, value becomes arbitrary, and truth becomes a matter of opinion. This is the philosophical crisis of modern physics and fiat economics alike: infinite models lead to infinite ambiguity.
Bitcoin restores coherence by embedding truth in constraint. It says: only what is scarce can be real, only what is finite can be measured, and only what is bounded can be meaningful. In this light, Bitcoin is a philosophical resolution. It proves that reality must be finite to be knowable, and that absolute scarcity is the precondition for meaning itself.
The quantum field is not infinite, it’s bounded. It must be. Everything changes.
