In the interest of building in the open, you can read my work-in-progress here:
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Thats solid title!
fast work. I was reading your conversation thread and I was wondering, what is it about Bitcoin and Nostr that appeals to you, as you seemed a bit too "deterministic" to me. (I thought it's something related to cryptographic network though)
Looking at the outline, it seems like that question will be answered. I'm looking forward to the publication :)
What do you mean by deterministic? Bitcoin and nostr are great because they're not over-realized, which is part of why they're so powerful.
Hard to explain. I'd say it's just an intuitive feeling...But let me say more In other words, what do you think about "free will"? (Of course, not in a life science sense, but in an ethical(difficult to express this in English) sense)
Free will is essential to love, which is why God gave it to us, and which is also why evil exists. At the same time, I'm a Calvinist, so I do believe God is sovereign over history (but in a transcendent way).
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If time is relative to mass and acceleration, its a constructed system. Meaning, God is at every point along any given time line simultaneously. An easier way to say that is I AM
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All right. I choose the word "ethical" because I associate "free will" with opposing evil, like "Eichmann in Jerusalem." I grew up in a traditionally collectivist area (Buddism is also strong though).
Eichmann is interesting, I hadn't read about him before. The loss of free will in that sense definitely can and does happen. But I also resonate very strongly with Solzhenhitsyn's Live Not By Lies essay, which extends hope that we can live truthfully and freely in any situation, if we attend to it.