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The "What is Money?" Show

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

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

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.

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This metaphysics of quality, it's actually hearkening back to something that a structure that exists in many ancient texts, including the Bible, where the actual, the symbolic language of cosmology is often analyzable

0:23.4

at multiple layers. So for instance, in the Bible, it talks a lot about heaven and earth.

0:28.8

And we think, okay, heaven, some place that we don't know where it is, and earth is this planet.

0:34.6

But heaven and earth meant it had multiple meanings depending on what level of reality

0:39.8

you're considering it through.

0:41.0

And that's why these stories pack so much meaning because I can tell you one story,

0:45.3

but it is applicable to multiple layers.

0:47.4

So heaven and earth could mean, I mean, I have these exactly like the principle

0:52.0

and then the action that actually

0:54.7

manifest the principle or mind and matter or even a leader and the community.

1:02.2

So it's kind of like the impetus to do something, the organizing principle and then the actual

1:08.0

action of manifestation or substantiation.

1:12.9

So this book is actually pointing to the fractal structure of reality through a metaphysical

1:23.1

descriptor in the same way that a book like the Bible points to the metaphysical

1:28.1

structure of reality through symbolic descriptors.

1:32.7

Yes, 100%.

1:34.1

And one of the things that I've found most exciting and when we've had conversations in the

1:38.4

past is a strong belief that the whole point of cultural evolution is to assimilate the, you know, the valuable things that have been created by our ancestors,

1:55.0

assimilate those things, upgrade them, expand upon them, fix them where they're broken, update, you know, we're in a constant

2:02.0

baton race of, you know, handing on the flame, as it were. And I believe that the metaphysics

2:08.2

of quality becomes a new skeleton key through which many other subjects such as theology,

2:15.8

mythology, the Bible, can be given a whole new lease of life,

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