Technology, Psychedelics , Bitcoin and Culture.
Technology, Psychedelics , Bitcoin and Culture.

Meditation- taking a step back and observing your mind, without judgement.Becoming aware of your mind. Can bring up repressed trauma. Therapeutic rewiring

Psychedelics- effectively enhanced mental activity, breaking down the concepts and cognition we have evolved and with which we understand and navigate the world. Destroying the old so that the new can emerge. Trying to ‘see’ your mind with a cognition that has not quite yet reached the necessary stage of evolution to do that. Fast, intense rewiring. Profound learning

Steep learning curves- A viscerally felt rewiring , making new connections between seemingly unrelated concepts, new meaning, learning.

Technology- has profoundly impacted our psychological evolution since the first stone tools were used. Each instantiation of new tech has facilitated the ever increasing complexity of our psychology and thus how we organize our societies, communities, civilizations.

Bitcoin is the next iteration in the evolution of the technology of money. Money is a technology that facilitates cooperation between people. Understanding Bitcoin necessitates understanding money, thus facilitating awareness of behavior. Old concepts of money are deconstructed and re-assimilated, re-defining how value is denoted, even what value is (is value a specific kind of meaning?). Over time, the impact of technology on our behavior and thus culture can be compared to that of a psychedelic experience and steep learning curve, the destruction of old concepts for the emergence of new, and the connecting of seemingly unrelated domains and ideas, rewiring to incubate new meaning, inspire new behavior and insight.

This is a steep learning curve (The rabbit hole). Each major new technology has resulted in disruption then settlement and new culture formed. Technological evolution describes an exponential growth curve. The time between settlement and next new tech is shorter and shorter. Like a pulse of change on the timeline of human history. Each pulse is closer to the last and thus seems stronger. Much like a psychedelic trip. I guess you could call it the evolution of consciousness if we couch it in a global and (human) cultural context.

This post was prompted by a query to a reply I posted on twitter in response to a tweet from Tim Denning.
['Nishad Kala']
['Technology', 'Bitcoin', 'Philosophy', 'Evolution', 'Psychedelics']