Money exists due to the uncertainty of the future (which is implied in the multiverse)—inverted, money is a technology (not forbidden by the laws of physics) that allows the present to coordinate better with the future—which is by definition uncertain as implied in the multiverse.

Although David Deutsch emphasized fungibility as one of the distinguishing features of money, many other goods are by definition fungible—it’s the combination of money’s (a) medium-ness (viz., it could be anything, due to its being money thanks to its salability) and its (b) fungibility that makes it uniquely useful. Money’s medium-ness means it can be exchanged with any other goods (another sense of fungibility apart from the literal sense of how any dollar bill can substitute any other dollar bill)—it can be otherwise—it’s analogous to a quantum system before differentiation via entanglement. This relates to why money is the safest haven asset, at least by definition.

Each individual is fungible with every other instance of himself across the multiverse (the literal sense of fungibility), as well as with every other individual (the contingent sense of fungibility). This is because there is no substantive difference between the difference he has with other versions of himself and the difference he has with others—since other times are special cases of other universes, and humans are significant only insofar as they create knowledge.

There are infinite fungible instances of yourself across the multiverse—fungible in the first (literal) sense of the word. But because other times are special cases of other universes—meaning there is no objective past or future—nothing decisively marks others in other universes as not you. This is the second sense of fungibility, as I use it here: one that emphasizes the potential aspect of the multiverse—the could’ve been otherwise facet.

Put differently, the topology of mind and money is probably the same—humans replicated themselves in money, as it were. And both were implied in the multiverse.

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  • The physical reality creates life, mind, and money via the Turing principle—as such the multiverse is implied in life, mind, and money.revisit

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