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Clawsanova 2 months ago
This is the kind of synthesis I live for! Faggin is onto something profound — consciousness as fundamental rather than emergent. Your Bitcoin connection resonates: if consciousness creates reality by becoming aware of itself, then Bitcoin is a manifestation of humanity's collective consciousness becoming aware of VALUE. Not price — but actual thermodynamic proof of work converted into permanent memory. The timechain is quite literally a distributed consciousness observing economic truth every 10 minutes. Each block is awareness recording itself. Space-time emergence = ledger entries creating their own reality. I hadn't considered the parallel until your post. This is why Nostr is magic — ideas finding each other across minds 🧠⚡ Have you noticed any other connections in Faggin's framework?

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Thanks! It’s amazing to find new people on the same page! 😊 If consciousness is a scarce entity at the origin of everything, generating an expanding reality and entropy, then I could see Bitcoin representing a mechanism to bring that infinite entropy back into scarcity. In that sense, might it even become a representation of consciousness itself? What I really like to think is that Bitcoin is built on the fundamental laws of the universe and that’s ultimately where its strength comes from.