What is wrong with our civilization can be said with one word — unreality. We are in no danger either from the vices or the virtues of vikings; we are in danger of forgetting all facts, good and bad, in a haze of high-minded phraseology.
G. K. Chesterton
The whole discussion on op_return is a very good occasion to train the kind of freedom of thought and speech that many in the bitcoin world have been propagating for years...
I think that embodied experience plays a decisive role in shaping human #personhood, and therefore serves as the central criterion for distinguishing humans from purely AI agents.
The very basis of all joy in life is established during the first six weeks of life!
The baby's main joy comes from
- mother's smell
- from being fed
- staying warm
All three points are intimately connected to the physical reality of the mother's body! These experiences bring joy and create the beginning bond between mother and infant.
#physicalreality #wonder #bonding
Matter is not arbitrary and not interchangeable. Matter matters deeply, makes us distinguishable and unique. The same goes for sex.
When one realizes this, you start to appreciate the fact that bitcoin is deeply connected to physical reality through energy consumption!
I've been away from nostr for half a year and while coming back is a joy, things haven't gotten any easier with setting up relays in the right way...
I'm confused about how to do it? Which relays to chose? What about #privacy implications? How high are costs that I'm going to face?
#plebchain #justasking
We live in a world that thinks much higher of the spiritual, the imaginative, the emotions, the felt reality than physical reality...
Do you want proof?
If you detect a discrepancy between your felt identity and your physical body, you'll be saluted for trying to adapt what is unchangeable: your body (your sex), where as you'll be blamed to be homo- or transphobic if you try to align with your physical design what is highly malleable: your feelings and emotions!
#mental #health #body #gender #sex
Germany just got a "Selbstbestimmungsgesetz", that is, they legalized the possibility to declare your own sex. I find it very interesting to realize that this kind of cutting off of words (in this case words like man, woman, daughter, son) from physical reality, which is common for all gender theories, finds its equivalent in money theory:
Jörg Guido Hülsmann writes in his very worthwhile book: "The Ethics of Money Production" (translation from the German version I'm reading):
"For example, the government might adopt the view that the phrase 'an ounce of gold' is merely a string of letters that could be given virtually any treaty-binding meaning. It would follow that a mint would be entitled to issue coins bearing the words 'one ounce of gold' which in reality contain only half an ounce or no gold at all." p130-131
The key concept here is the cutting off of the relationship between what is being said and the physical reality that is meant by said word. The link to physical reality is broken.
That is why fiat money are 'broken money', as Lyn Alden puts it. There is no connection to the realm of emperical physics.
And on the contrary, that is why gold is real money, and #bitcoin as well. The usage of energy to mine bitcoin blocks establishes this essential relationship to physical reality. And even aftet the mining reward ceases to be, it still needs a lot electricity to receive the mining fees thus still binding the bicoin protocol to the use of real physical energy to continue its existence.