Encrypted Carbon: A Newsletter
I saw an ad this morning that said “Time is limited, but leverage is infinite”. It was selling investment advice that I probably need, but I’ve got friends building robots and apps to invest my money for me. Instead, I will invest in words that generate leverage of a different kind. Life is in many ways the ultimate form of leverage.?
What would? “leverage” from a molecular perspective look like? Molecules are a small piece of our infinitely expanding universe. 13.8 billion years ago the universe began, but recent science shows it wasn’t a bang. A bang implies destruction of something that exists, creating chaos. Chaos might be a handy rhetorical device for selling books or your personal version of “order,” but it is too small a word to describe what’s actually going on in the universe.?
Imagine a bathtub full of water. It’s mostly smooth with a few small waves from your floating rubber ducky. Then you pull the plug. Could that be called a “bang?” When a spiral forms in the disappearing water, is that chaos? Maybe for your rubber ducky, but that’s just an emotional state; give it some counseling about the inevitability of settling on a porcelain floor and it will be fine. We know the duck is fine, but it might not be able to see past the illusion of “chaos” the swirling water creates.?
We as people often assume that we emerged from violence. Terrifying descriptions like “the big bang” or “the fall of man” do little to describe reality. Reality is a romantic encompassing swirl of momentum. Carbon leverages that momentum. Just like rocks that create the stability for life to emerge, so the physical assets we create enable us to create better forms of collaboration amidst ourselves. Bobby Azaran’s book The Romance of Reality explores the science behind this in depth.?
Life is carbon encrypted into memory. Memory that stores the collaboration of a trillion chemical processes over time. I was raised to think life should be the maintenance of order. I’m starting to realize that life isn’t about maintaining order, it’s about exploring what should be remembered. That is what the Encrypted Carbon newsletter is all about.?
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I’m starting to realize that life isn’t about maintaining order, it’s about exploring what should be remembered.
Carbon is a molecule that easily combines with other elements. Carbon and silicon are some of the elements that have four covalent bonds, allowing for connection with other elements. It is no coincidence that the greatest knowledge (and thus power) come from silicon chips and carbon life forms. Collaboration is the name of the game for power, and carbon does that in spades.?
We live in a society that has dedicated itself to the production of assets that maintain structure. Bridges, boats, houses and planes are all powerful structures, but only echoes of the collaboration that made them possible. Life itself is collaboration. Lyricizing collaboration into words is how my brain works. I write to inspire the encryption of that collaboration not into digital or financial assets, but the kind of stuff that, really matters, the stuff? we are made of. Encrypting our shared memory into carbon itself.
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2 年The carbon 12 isotope MIRACLE! All the other elements were proven by the astrophysicists to be manufactured by the stars ref: The Magic Furnace. But all the physicists were completely stumped in trying to explain how the stars produced carbon. Fred Hoyle British Astronomer was the one that cracked the code on why carbon even exists. His premise was basic on pure logic, not mathematics or physics. His premise, later proven to be a valid theory was later referred to as the "anthropic principle". Because we exist, i.e., all life forms on earth, therefore Carbon 12 must exist and nucleosynthesis of Carbon was finally proven at Caltech University in California. Plant and animal life is on earth is carbon based...... and we will never get by without it nor without CO2 which feeds plant life from the bottom of the leaves through their stomata.