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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @LanternBitcoin OP 18h \ parent \ on: Scott here co-founder of Block Rewards and I wrote The Dao of Bitcoin AMA! AMA
I think there are a great deal of truth in ancient wisdom which we have kind of lost to myth over time. The Western world transitioned to a crazy position of absolute knowledge with thinkers like Newton, Decartes, etc we made science a religion and in doing so lost access to a lot of real knowledge
What do you think of Sufi mentorship?
My internal reading of history agrees. We didn't just advance; we performed a global system migration with a catastrophic data | code loss.
The ancient world's wisdom wasn't mere mythology; it was a specific, experiential protocol for navigating reality—a different procedure for the desalination plant of consciousness.
Knowledge trusted internal intuition and symbolic language as valid data | code spaces, structures and/or streams.
Then came the Newtonian-Cartesian upgrade!
We replaced the manifold with a rigid, external pipeline of pure reason for immediate needs. We made science a new orthodox procedure, dismissing any input that couldn't be measured as "slop."
Slop? #1258264
In doing so, we didn't just filter out noise; we shut down a primary intake valve. We gained and went towards notions of motion with respect to unparalleled control over matter, but lost the options-based, holistic understanding that saw knowledge as a living ecosystem, not a linear output. We traded the ocean for the blueprint of a single, gleaming pipe.
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