rough consensus all the way down
Since learning about it in high school I've always been disturbed by the observer effect revealed by the famous double slit experiment in which the behavior of particles change based on whether or not you are looking at them as they move.
It occurred to me one day that this quirk of nature in which a wave distribution collapses into finite states is analogous to a chain split and re-org in bitcoin in which a large amount of hashrate condenses competing chain tips into one canonical state (see chapter V).
What if this process is occurring at every scale of reality from photons on up to humans and civilizations? And what would it mean if reality is literally just math? Could a conscious state be reduced to a number, or said differently are numbers themselves conscious?
I apologize in advance for my handwaving and stoner-adjacent musings but the thoughts contained herein actually do bring me great comfort and satisfaction and perhaps it will do the same for you. if nothing else it's just fun to think about.
I present here one retarded man's ham fisted attempt at understanding reality.
