If we are in a consciousness training simulator (see my post yesterday about Thomas Campbell’s work) which optimizes for and evolves towards more complexity of information with less entropy clouding awareness, what is cryptocurrency in that context?
Well, first we have to think about what evolution of consciousness is. It requires choice which leads to new combinations of information with greater complexity and new choices. The invention of money or a ledger for keeping track of the value dynamics of interactions between individuated units of consciousness allows for the speed of choice to rapidly increase. Some smart, ambitious people understood this and in the late 1700’s created central bank currency systems where they could control and manipulate the foundational basis of measurement for value itself. If everything of financial value maps to units of X and a group of people can control how many X’s exist, they can control the value of everything, especially if they can pick and choose, along with their partners in government, who gets newly created X’s.
This distorts the pure signal of market choice and price discovery. If prices are no longer real then entropy has entered the system and we’ve gone backwards. Evolution will select for something better. Along comes cryptocurrency, a ledger system that can’t be manipulated by individuals and that can evolve incredibly fast due to its uncensorable and open source nature. New experiments allowing for new choices are being birthed every day. The system is finding balance towards maximizing the evolution of consciousness again. Those who are aware and actually stop to think about what money is in order to better understand the thing they spend so much of their life working to obtain will greatly benefit as they will be the first to appreciate the value and inevitably of cryptocurrency. Again, the system will select for or reward those who are most conscious. How unconscious do you need to be to spend most of your day earning pieces of paper with dead white guys on them which represent debt in a system with so much debt-servicing interest that the debt can never be repaid?
Yes, cryptocurrency is volatile and yes there are scams and yes there are further segmentations that are happening within crypto for more energy efficient networks or lower fees or more throughput or systems with better governance or improved usability or more functionality. All of this, again, rapidly accelerates the evolution of consciousness of those who are aware enough to pay attention and decide how they will be involved and which networks and communities to participate in.
Don’t miss out on the things the system is optimized for and rewarding. If you’re working to build better systems for human collaboration, information processing, and increasing the capacity for love through individual choice and the lowering of entropy within consciousness, you will be rewarded. Not only that, you will feel fulfilled becuase you will be working towards something that represents the entire reason for existence.