I was reading Lao tzu last night. He said:

the fundamentals of world cannot be described. If described, it is not it (my paraphrase).

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GM, great quote 😁

Dynamic vs static

what is the point of those fundamentals if you cant describe them and probably use them?

Good question!

the old man's saying, it is not that I understand ha.

Still, we may still use it even when we don't understand it.

Or possibly, it is not for the use.

I take this to mean not that they can't be used but in the summarizing they lose some meaning.

I can use nostr without knowing the protocols at all such as.

but it can be described

yes! I can describe nostr.

The guy is a riddle that I cannot solve 🧐

Yes I agree, a description of a thing is not the thing itself. A hash, merkle tree, or summary must by definition lose some depth of the data.