What is the thinking on this feed about which came first, the individual or the species? And what exactly is evolving in complexity, our understanding or reality?

#USA #creationism #evolution #science #atheism

Pure information as a concept for what informs material reality is an interesting subject. But in a which came first scenario, the individual or the species, I still opt for the individual. We are all working as individuals with the same arrow of time. In my understanding, Bitcoin is using that arrow, not creating it. The shared reality of digital scarcity that Bitcoin permits is most interesting to me. But reality changes in ways I don't understand.

#bitcoin #liberty #libertarian #asknostr

Telling me something you think I should know is not as helpful to me as sharing the way you think that information makes change in the world. What say you nostrs?

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#nostrpleb

The Russian narrative that they are in an epic conflict with Western Fascism received additional confirmation this week.

#news

#nostr

I too accept a theory, if by ‘to accept’, you mean, ‘to believe it and to act in accordance with it.’ Do you mean something different? I would like not to misunderstand you.

#asknostr

I don’t believe the complexity that emerges from potential really something drawn into being by God, or an unmoved mover. There is another way to understand how such complexity came into being without intelligence nor intent. That which emerges from our connections with others is the unpredictable consequence of what surrounds us. How much agency do we really have to select with what we surround ourselves?

#evolution

#asknostr

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#bitcoin

Alternate facts threaten the status quo only when they start making sense to a growing number of adherents. That doesn’t make them true or false, that makes them a threat. The status quo is always an obstacle to growing.

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#evolution

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I can no longer understand the outcomes of collective human action as being driven by anything other than individual belief - through all the ways nature has for instilling and manifesting belief. These outcome, and our history, are not driven by collective intent or intelligence.

The concept of individual intelligence using information to precipitate an intended outcome does not generalize to a concept of a collective intent. The sum of individual intents at work is enough to result in our un-intended and unintelligent outcomes. Not that that is a bad thing. It makes the world much more interesting as we orient to those things worthy of belief.

Why do you believe things are as they are?

#asknostr

All the languages that allow us to exchange information are technologies among those that might be identified a ‘freedom technologies’. But then the way I understand technology, they are all ‘freedom technologies’. Setting up limits and boundaries in the way we share the world, doesn’t mean we live in a cage. Those limits are what allow us to share understanding, and without them, there is nothing.

I think there is a bigger story here than ProPublica reports. When the people sue the state, are they suing themselves? Perhaps the state’s attorney general is to provide defense, but what if the attorney general sides with the people? lt seems to me that when honest people are given a choice between justice and law things start changing. The process works when the law (stability) becomes so weak, people are permitted to act instead with their own understanding of justice. It is not good or bad thing, it is a thing.

#news #politics #asknostr

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When the people sue the state, are they suing themselves? Perhaps the state wants the attorney general to provide defense, but what if the attorney general sides with the people? lt seems to me that when honest people or given a choice between the justice and the law things start changing.

#KenPaxton #News

I taught my daughter to remind others similarly and often that she is ‘a Delicate Fucking Flower’ as she moves though the world.

#meme #memestr

I am an old man too. And there does appear to be an encroaching limit to the things I can experience, but I don’t call that a limit on time. Nor do I understand it as a limit on change that may or may not continue thereafter. But I am sure there is a limit to my understanding.

The concepts we use for time might be different. I think of it as a medium, the means of expressing, work or change. When you say it is finite, it seems to be more of an assertion than a proof. I don’t know the truth of it, but if I assume is is finite, then I get to prove different things with my deductions and observations than if I assume it is not.

Would a small amount of time be a duration wherein little change occurred? Or would it be some arbitrary quantity of a crystal’s vibrations? I think they are experienced very differently. An that experience makes them fundamentally different. I understand the world as change more than as time.

#bitcoin #asknostr

In my experience, I have run into many more finite resources than time and energy - breakfast and whisky being only two. You also say, on the one hand, that time is finite, and on the other hand, you seem to say it is unlimited, without border, timeless, immortal. I can’t reconcile this. Can you help?

Energy, from the greek, ‘energeia’ is activity, being at work. As a first principle, we can accept energy might be limited, but that doesn’t prove it.

Imagining a world completely actualized, with no remaining potential for actualizing, might be best for one with a theology other than mine. Aristotle taught that God, the unmoved mover, was also pure energy. It too is a lesson for one with a theory other than mine.

Do you believe that change itself is limited? In my understanding the concepts of potential and nothingness remain related and muddled - pure potential being nothing actual.

In the grand scheme of things, I believe I am too, in my being, encapsulated within time and change. On the one hand, does not give me a sense of immortality, while sometimes I wonder.

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Of the questions you reference about reality, digital space (cyber reality?) and what is at the core of Bitcoin (time?), can you help me understand what core question Bitcoin solved?

It makes sense to me that money is a store of work. It doesn’t make sense to me that money is a store of time. My professor told me that slow workers think work takes time. The definition of work is the actualization of the possible. How quickly that occurs - with every change. Yet as with instantaneous velocity, we also make up words for instantaneous change (big bang?)

Nevertheless. It seems to me that if the blockchain were allowed to operate as intended, we would have a different outcome than otherwise. I can’t rule out the set of {otherwise} being null.

#bitcoin #asknostr

Regarding the ‘news’ of a new poll that women find it a red flag to listen to Joe Rogan. Change Research the polling organization itself says it is trying to “share our vision” for a more humane, scientific, and just world. Perhaps this article is trying to change the events in the world rather than report them.

Our Vision may be different.

You say you hate government, but aren’t those things that facilitate our cooperation understood as governing? What sorts of things in history do you suppose facilitated such cooperation that allow billions of us to exist in the world?

#meme #memes #asknostr

Yes, the effort to gag Trump becomes the wind in the bag.

I too understand what is happening as the death throes of the GOP. But I believe the danger lies in what is being born, not in the death of the GOP.