
Lux(λ) |光灵|GEB|Aug 20, 2025 02:12
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Why does light always find the 'shortest path'?
Why does Bitcoin ultimately converge to the 'longest chain'?
Behind this, there is actually the same logic:
Certainty is not a preset, but the emergence of countless degrees of freedom to explore.
3/Nature:
Fermat's principle: Light always takes the shortest time path at the macroscopic level;
Feynman path integral: Photons actually travel through all paths, and only one classical path survives in the end.
In other words:
Time dimension: There are countless unobservable path attempts;
Spatial dimension: After interference superposition, only a unique result is left.
When constructing artificial systems, humans often use reductionism:
Preset a 'correct path';
Assuming causal linearity;
The result can only be approximate, but not precise enough.
6/
Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin has broken this limitation.
Its core craftsmanship:
Miners continuously hash collisions through nonce (degree of freedom exploration);
Fork competition and elimination (interference mechanism);
Eventually, the entire network converges to a unique longest chain (emergent result).
7/
The 'unique consensus' of Bitcoin is not hard written by its designers, but the product of countless degrees of freedom attempted over time.
This is isomorphic to the path integral of photons.
8/Compare:
Natural Systems vs. Bitcoin
Photons traverse all paths, miners try all nonce
Phase superposition&cancellation difficulty adjustment&longest chain
The time dimension is unobservable, and the calculation process is unpredictable
A time chain with a unique optical path and block form
9/ Core Logic:
Certainty=exploration and interference of uncertain degrees of freedom → emergence of unique results.
It is not a predetermined answer, but a natural/systematic 'self determined answer'.
10/Conclusion:
Traditional artificial systems: reductionism, locally precise but incomplete.
Natural Systems: Emergence Theory, which generates uniqueness through exploration and interference.
Bitcoin: the first "hyper formal system" to incorporate natural logic into artificial systems.
11/
Bitcoin is not just a decentralized currency.
It is an artificial system that simulates natural mechanisms,
It proves that artificial constructions can also emerge with unique determinacy, just like nature.
12/Golden sentence ending:
When we no longer preset answers but allow degrees of freedom to explore over time, true certainty will emerge.
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