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Such great takes, really enjoyed that episode. Bitcoin does fix the world, it is the time/ energy accounting solution to the world game. If you've never read buckminster fuller before you should take a few minutes and look into the world game. It may help you put all the pieces together as to how bitcoin accomplishes everything we think it can/ will. https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/world-game/

From a friend. The Buddha discovered precisely this… Pixels and the Illusion of Meaning What we call reality — people, things, histories, dramas — is not what it seems. At the most basic level, what exists are fluctuating formations of atoms and molecules, or, more precisely, vibrations within quantum fields. But the human mind takes these formations and superimposes names, labels, and meanings upon them. This act of naming transforms a neutral field into a world of imagined solidity and significance. In truth, the “things” we believe we encounter are not independent entities, but mental constructions projected onto an energetic flux. Children looking at clouds provide a clear image: one sees a dog, another sees a dragon, another a horse. The clouds themselves are only shifting formations of matter; the animals exist only in the children’s imaginations. In the same way, our minds project whole realms of meaning onto atoms and molecules. The same occurs with perception. What we experience as a stable external world is actually the brain’s rendering: an inner 3-D mind movie, a geometric representation of incoming information. This movie appears within our skull as sights, sounds, textures, and thoughts. But these are not “the external things themselves”; they are mental icons, stitched together by the brain for the survival and reproduction of the organism. Every quality of experience — colors, sounds, flavors, odors, sensations, emotions, memories, and even the felt sense of self — is part of this inner movie, not evidence of an independent outer reality. The television provides another striking analogy. When we watch a drama, we become absorbed in the characters, their struggles, their joys, their heartbreaks. We cheer for heroes, despise villains, and may even weep for losses. But if we lean in very close to the screen, the entire world of the story vanishes into nothing but tiny, fluctuating pixels of light and color. The drama was never really “out there” in the tv, the way we imagined; it was a pattern of pixels generated on a flat surface, and our minds supplied the meaning that made it feel real. In precisely this way, the universe itself can be considered to be pixelated in the form of vibrating energetic flux, and what we call “people” or “objects” are overlays of mental meaning we superimpise upon those patterns. Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote about a reader deeply absorbed in a book about medieval court life. The man was fully immersed in the pageantry, the intrigues, and the drama — until he suddenly noticed that the reality of the book itself contained nothing but little black letters on the white pages. Everything he had been experiencing was a construction generated by his mind as it translated those little black letters into a story. With that insight, the illusory mental story collapsed. In the same way, the Buddha realized that all of the world — selves, people, objects, events, cause and effect and karma — are fictional mental constructs projected upon a real, underlying energetic field. The objects have no intrinsic meaning apart from the mind’s act of naming and labeling. So what remains when the names and labels fall away? Physics may describe the flux as atoms or quantum fields, but from the enlightened perspective the substrate is Consciousness itself: an unborn, unconditioned field of unborn awareness. This field manifests as every possible energetic formation — the textures we call “world,” the inner movies we call “mind.” But none of these have independent existence. They are interdependent patterns in consciousness, like pixels on a television screen or little black letters on a page, while the field itself remains indescribable. The Buddha described this recognition as Nirvana: the bliss of realizing that nothing we experience as real — the self, others, people, objects — exists outside the realm of subjective mental construction. The unborn, unconditioned field of Consciousness is what remains when the fictions of naming and labeling dissolve. To awaken is simply to see that all meaning is mentally superimposed, and that the ground is empty of objectively existing people, selves and “things” — yet full as pure potential, Consciousness itself. The Final Question So then, if our world of experience is merely mental constructions superimposed upon a field we never directly perceive, what is the body? What is the organism? What is the brain, neurons and mind that seem to impose these constructions upon the energetic field of Consciousness ? The answer is that the body, brain, and organism themselves are nothing apart from that same field — manifestations of the field appearing as tiny biological whirlpools within the infinitely vast stream of Consciousness. Like a swirl in a river, the body-mind is not separate from the river itself; it is the river appearing AS this temporary form. This whirlpool of energetic activity (body,brain and mind) has the peculiar capacity to mentally construct for its own survival and reproductive purposes, a representational view of the world within its own skull. But this story-making is no exception to the rule: it is itself part of the field’s total functioning. Here we meet what Zen master Dōgen called Zenki (Total Function). Every factor — the body, the mind, the atmosphere, oxygen, the sun, and all environmental conditions — arises interdependently as the functioning of the totality. There is nothing outside it, nothing foreign to it. Even the illusions of selfhood and objects are not “mistakes” smuggled in from some other order; they too are part of the functioning of the whole. To mistake this neutral, interdependent field for a collection of real independent things, is like mistaking a coiled rope for a snake in the dark. The rope is the real energetic body-mind formation, also merely another neutral pattern within the field. The fictional snake is the imagined “self,” mentally projected onto that real neutral formation of body, brain and mind. The snake (personal self) never existed. In the same way, the separate person never existed. It was only a label projected upon a very tiny whirlpool in the stream. The illusions the brain/mind superimposes — “me,” “you,” “world,” “objects” — are no more real than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. They exist only in the imagination, just as those childhood figures exist only in the child’s mind. This is what the Buddha realized: that the subjective world of names and labels does not really exist in itself, but only as subjective mental constructions. Seen in this light, the whole field — call it Buddha Nature, call it Brahman, call it quantum fields, call it consciousness — is one undivided totality. It is what Dzogchen calls the Great Perfection. Every whirlpool, every fiction, every error, every flash of imagination, and every insight is not outside this field. It is the field itself, manifesting. There never was a Buddha seeking the truth and liberation from all suffering. That one too was just another mental construct occurring in the mind of the Buddha.. 😳

Buckminster fuller on wealth/ bitcoin. Bitcoin is the time/ energy accounting solution to the world game.