Something on reality and time theory - if I am correct that our understanding of reality is not truth, and may have been altered numerous times or is being fed to us continually in a way we can manage it (consider being evoked into this reality a moment ago with a lifetime of memories relatively intact), and that time, instead of being a linear construct of one event occurring after another, is rather a continuous process of destruction and invocation . . .
This makes the bitcoin proof-of-work timechain a much more interesting existence. Perhaps it is the most "real" thing we have encountered, because for it to exist, with the properties it supposedly exhibits, it essentially defines time and a reality with history. I can't think of anything else that couldn't have been evoked a moment ago. Perhaps the full blockchain could be as easily evoked as a full memory, even a full universe of memory - but I don't think it could be altered as easily, so the history contained within the timechain may have to considered a true history, even if many such histories exist (or could exist.
I really need to read der Gigi's book.
Could the timechain exist independently of matter? I think it is possible. Could it exist in n-dimensional space? Also possible, in fact it may define its own n-space.
This is what happens when I start reading Heidegger, and find him stuck in trying to define his dasein in a worldview and reality that I have mostly discarded as insufficient and in favor of something far more grand. It's like watching a retarded child fumble around with blocks, hoping he'll be able to stack a few together in a meaningful way. I hope Heidegger emerges from this into something more comprehensive and illuminating.