Spiritual is a loaded word for some, so I'm trying to stick to tracing the metaphysics at physics' observable boundary. We can observe (and experience) that the rational intellect grasps universals and abstracts. Zero, infinity, continuity (which is a form of infinity), triangularity, dimensionality...
Bitcoin giving us a model of time (state, conservation and change) that we can view from the outside, not only means that we can make a better model of the time we experience (physics) but also a better model of the interface (metaphysics). I seems to look just like what Aristotle and St. Thomas said.
The rational intellect grasps possible changes ("quantum states" which are not physical states but potentia) and qualities, practical reason discerns the good and the will signs potentia into actus.
The negative case is being proven to us by AI. Despite the complexity of computation, they still suffer model collapse. Without sustaining order from outside the system, they fall into entropy. Something sustains order from the outside and we participate in that because we bring order into being as well.
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html
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