In short, you can change the past
Related:
- 1-2b2 He who controls the past controls the future
- 3-1a0 Use categories, but don’t be categorized
- E.g., borders and treaties are arbitrary and can be rewritten
- 4-1a4b2b1 ‘One-of-those’ over one-off - Learn from history (not just from your ‘own’ experience)
- 10-1a1 歴史 = 編集 = 関係の発見
- 10-1a2 History rewrites (edits) itself
- 10-2e6 Any theory must account for the meaning of ‘the future’ and ‘the past’ because both are arbitrary abstractions and do not exist objectively in reality
- 13-8a3 Money must evoke the past, but the demand for money lies in the future
- AN3C - Piraha doesn’t differentiate the future and the past
- RUL3 - Live in the future and build what seems interesting
- On interpretation:
- 1-2a1 Our ‘direct’ experience is also virtual because its meaning is conjectured and interpreted via guesses
- 3-1c1d2 Historic records are full of embellishment, lying, and misinterpretation. It’s mediated by many minds both conscious and unconscious.
- 4-1a4b3c A blockchain record means an immutable subject to be interpreted
- 4-1a4b6a0 You can use ideas both NOW (upside - cognitive offload) and LATER (upside - ideas becoming useful with new interpretation). Ideas ≠ Money.
- 10-2g3a Everything is (or more precisely, became) symbol. Social values-knowledge-structures themselves are symbols represented by non-explicit forms (e.g., traditions and habits) interpreted non-explicitly (‘流れ込む情報’).