The Fractal Nature of Value | The Mike Hill Series | Episode 3 (WiM112)

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUEST Mike’s Website: https://www.mikehill.design/ PODCAST Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1 RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE 00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro 00:00:08 Symbolic and Metaphysical Descriptors of Value 00:03:01 The Logos: Gathering Things Together Under a Common Name 00:03:48 The Fractal Structure of (Static and Dynamic) Value 00:07:10 Defining “Fractal” 00:08:50 Inorganic and Intellectual Mass: “Matter” and “What Matters” 00:11:00 Etymology as Walking Backwards Through the Fractal Tree of Language 00:12:30 Unpacking the Meta-Narrative of Lila 00:16:45 Static Quality as a Ledger Written by Dynamic Quality 00:21:24 Returning to the Lila Meta-Narrative… 00:29:41 The Duality of Lila 00:32:24 NYDIG 00:33:31 Polysemic Storytelling 00:37:39 The Middle Way of Truth 00:39:48 The Philosophy of American Pragmatism on Truth 00:42:06 The Middle Way of Transjectivity 00:43:15 Pirsig’s Indexing System for Constructing his Metaphysics 00:47:41 Random Access Memory (RAM), Freedom, and Dynamic Quality 00:51:53 The Intensity of Exchange and the Etymology of God 00:54:54 Morality is Born from Play and Play is Born from Freedom 00:58:00 Humans Create Stories that Support, but Later Cripple, Further Exploration SOCIAL Breedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22 WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=en All My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​ WRITTEN WORK Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/ Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE Bitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7 Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22 Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22 Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedlove Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528 The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSES Worldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/ Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217 Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/ Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/ Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22 Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack