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Visual aids and data tables referenced in the thesis
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Five Ways to Impose Severe Physical Costs on Attackers in Five Different Domains .................. 13 Figure 2: Tesla & Ford's Theories Could Manifes
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A Domesticated Wolf Wearing a Wolf Collar ................................ ................................ ............... 22 Figure 4: Four Phases o
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G eneral Construction of a Grounded Theory ................................ ................................ .............. 51 Figure 6: Conceptual Di
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Core Categories Chosen for this Research Effort ................................ ................................ ......... 54 Figure 8: Organism Sign
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Illustration of One of Life’s Most Dominant Power Projection Tactics ................................ ........ 64 Figure 10: Illustration of an Early
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The Benefit - to - Cost Ratio of Attack (BCR A ) a.k.a. Primordial Economics ................................ .. 67 Figure 12: Prosperity Margin Chang
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Prosperity Margin Changes amongst Different Organisms ................................ ....................... 69 Figure 14: Apex predator using Phago
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A Warm - Blooded Organism that Sparked an Ecological Arms Race ................................ .......... 73 Figure 16: An Illustration of The Surviv
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Bowtie Notation of Primordial Economics ................................ ................................ ................. 80 Figure 18: Bowtie Illus
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Illustration of the “Grow C A First, Grow B A Second” Survival Strategy using Bowtie Notation . 87 Figure 20: Step 1 of “Bigger Fish” Scenario .......
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Step 2 of “Bigger Fish” Scenario ................................ ................................ ................................ 88 Figure 22: Step
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Step 4 of “Bigger Fish” Scenario ................................ ................................ ................................ 89 Figure 24: Bowt
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Bowtie Representation of Domestication ................................ ................................ ................ 101 Figure 26: Bowtie Repres
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Physical Power - Based Resource Control Protocol used in the Wild (Part 1/4) ....................... 109 Figure 28: Physical Power - Based Resource Co
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Physical Power - Based Resource Control Protocol used in the Wild (Complete Build) ............ 111 Figure 30: A Power Projection Strategy Prone to Ca
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Awkward - Looking & Underappreciated Power Projection Technology ................................ .. 114 Figure 32: Comparison Between a Sapient Brain
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An Anatomically Modern Homosapien with its Characteristically Large Forehead ................ 121 Figure 34: Illustration of the Bi - Directional Natu
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Illustration of How Practically Impossible it is Not to Think Symbolically ............................... 124 Figure 36: Model of a Realness - Verifi
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False Positive Correlation Produced by the Brain’s Realness - Verification Algorithm ............. 126 Figure 38: The Poking/Pinching Realness - Verif
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Primordial Economic Dynamics of Hunting ................................ ................................ ............. 131 Figure 40: Illustration of
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Example of how Fish Communicate Differently than Mammals ................................ ............. 134 Figure 42: Illustration of the Metacogniti
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A God - King Exploiting a Population’s Belief System ................................ ................................ 148 9 Figure 44: A Repeating Cy
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Captain Elizabeth Eastman does a Pre - Flight Inspection of her A - 10 Thunderbolt II. ............. 152 Figure 46: Chief Justice Anthony Dudley Presi
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False Positive Correlation Produced by the Brain’s Realness - Verification Algorithm ............. 158 Figure 48: A Strategy for Passive - Aggressivel
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Model of the Resource Control Structure created by Natural Selection ................................ . 171 Figure 50: Model of the Resource Control S
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Bowtie Illustration of How to Domesticate Humans ................................ ............................... 187 Figure 52: A More Accurate Model
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Illustration of the National Strategic Security Dilemma ................................ .......................... 218 Figure 54: Bowtie Notation of
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How the Cycle of War Creates a “Blockchain” ................................ ................................ ......... 230 Figure 56: Evolution of Ph
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Evolution of Physical Power Projection Technology, Shown with an Attempted Fork ........... 238 Figure 58: Evolution of Physical Power Projection Tech
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Illustration of the Difference Between Traditional Language and Machine Code .................. 251 Figure 60: False Positive Correlation Produced by
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Example of a Logically Flawed Engineering Design that’s Physically Impossible ..................... 262 Figure 62: Modern Agrarian Homosapien Losing H
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Software Administrators with Abstract Power over Digital - Age Resources ............................ 275 Figure 64: A Repeating Pattern of Human Powe
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Illustration of Two Ways to Constrain a Computer Program ................................ ................... 287 Figure 66: “Chain Down” Design Conce
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Security Protocol Design Concept of a Deliberately Inefficient State Mechanism .................. 290 Figure 68: Visualization of the Two - step Proce
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Illustration of Two Different Types of Control Signals ................................ ............................. 295 Figure 70: Design Concept of
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Illustration of the “Electro - Cyber Dome” Concept using Proof - of - Power Wall APIs ............... 300 Figure 72: Bitcoin is a Recursive System Whi
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Utilizing the Global Electric Power Grid as a Computer ................................ .......................... 305 Figure 74: Planetary - Scale Co
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Using a Planetary Computer to “Chain Down” Regular Computers ................................ ........ 309 Figure 76: Difference between Regular Compu
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Bitcoin is a Physical Cost Function Protocol which Utilizes the Planet as a Computer ........... 311 Figure 78: Illustration of how Physical Cost Func
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Bi - Directional Abstract Thought & Symbolism Applied to a Planetary Computer .................. 315 Figure 80: A Capability Gap for Brains Operating
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Theoretical Effect of Plugging a Planetary - Scale State Mechanism into the Internet ............. 320 Figure 82: Illustration of Physical and Systemi
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Illustrating the Physical Differences between Different Technologies ................................ .... 325 Figure 84: Breakdown of a Proof - of -
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Illustration of the Difference Between Proof - of - Work & Proof - of - Stake Protocols ................ 330 Figure 86: Side - by - Side Comparison be
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Software Administrators with “Stake” in Ethereum 2.0 ................................ .......................... 337 Figure 88: Graphical Illustration
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Illustration of the Difference Between Public Perception & Reality of Bitcoin’s Dominance . 339 Figure 90: Gabriel's Horn ............................
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Visualizing Nakamoto’s Bitpower Tokens as Surface Area on a Gabriel’s Horn ...................... 343 Figure 92: Logically Paradoxical Power Conversio
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Illustration of the Third Step added by Finney’s Physical Cost Function Protocol .................. 352 Figure 94: Evolution of Physical Power Project
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Comparison between “Hard” and “Soft” Warfighting Dynamics ................................ ............ 369 Figure 96: Notional Combatant Component De
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Illustration of Softwar Concept ................................ ................................ ................................ 385 11 List of Tabl
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shows five different ways that machinery can be used to impose severe physical costs on others in, from, and through five different domains. The image
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Five Ways to Impose Severe Physical Costs on Attackers in Five Different Domains [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 14 Bitcoin could represent a strategically vital nati
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. Figure 2 : Tesla & Ford's Theories Could Manifest as an Open - Source Computer Protocol A ”softwar” protocol could theoretically utilize society’s i
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. In their domesticated state, golden retrievers don’t know wh at they are and where they come from , so naturally they aren’t going to understand wha
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A Domesticated Wolf Wearing a Wolf Collar 23 There are other scenarios where people slow adoption even when they have plenty of knowledge about warfig
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below. The first phase is data collection. Once enough raw data have been collected for analysis, the second phase is data coding. Once enough data ha
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Four Phases of Grounded Theory Development [33] 2 . 3 . 2 Phase 1: Data Collection The grounded theory approach relies heavily on constant comparative
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provides a n illustration of how a grounded theory is constructed . Researchers engage in data collection and data coding to develop basic - level con
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General Construction of a Grounded Theory [33] 2 . 3 . 4 Phase 3: Theoretical Sampling The goal of generating a new theoretical framework is to create
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. [38] 52 Figure 6 : Conceptual Diagram Generated During Data Coding When performing data analysis, Corbin and Strauss explain that resear chers must
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provides a breakdown of the core categories identified by the author . These core concepts were identified based on the most commonly reoccurring conc
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Core Categor ies Chosen for this Research Effort With these core categories identified, the author assembled the most relevant conceptual memos under
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. Figure 8 : Organism Signaling Ownership of a Resource using the Proof - of - Power Protocol The wolf’s capacity and willingness to impose severe phy
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. When external forces from the environment contact a membrane, the membrane exploits Newton’s third law to passively project opposing forces back at
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Illustration of One of Life’s Most Dominant Power Projection Tactics 65 Using pressurized membranes to capture resources and survive in the wild would
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, capable of floating to unexplored, nutrient - rich heights . Figure 10 : Illustration of an Early - Stage Global Superpower Under the protection of
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. Figure 11 : The Benefit - to - Cost Ratio of Attack (BCR A ) a.k.a. Primordial Economics Every organism can be attacked; therefore, every organism h
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. To survive, an organism must keep their BCR A level lower than a hazardous BCR A level that will motivate neighboring life to attack them. The space
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. Figure 12 : Prosperity Margin Changes among Different Environments 69 Organisms operating in empty neighborhoods have intrinsically higher prosperit
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illustrates how organisms which succeed at lowering their BCR A level enjoy more prosperity margin. Figure 13 : Prosperity Margin Changes amongst Diff
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below. Figure 14 : Apex predator using Phagocytosis to Devour a Neighboring Organism with High BCR A Some might say predation is a negative phenomenon
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were able to overcome this challenge thanks to biological mutations which allowed their bodies to actively produce their own heat by metabolizing fats
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A Warm - Blooded Organism that Sparked an Ecological Arms Race The reader should note that w hen predation and entropy aren’t factored into our calcul
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Figure 16 : An Illustration of The Survivor’s Dilemma 77 The margin between the organism’s BCR A level and the environment’s BCR A level is the organi
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. This notation is useful for learning how to think like a predator by visualizing how “appetizing” organisms are for neighboring life to devour, a pr
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Bowtie Notation of Primordial Economics As discussed in the previous section, a core challenge associated with living in a CCCH environment is growing
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. 81 Figure 18 : Bowtie Illustration of Three Power Projection Strategies for Pursuing Infinite Prosperity Option #1 (shown on left side of Figure 18
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where the quantity associated with B A is clearly larger than the quantity associated with C A . From the organism’s point of view, the upside to depl
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) represents a power projection tactic where organisms grow their resource abundance and capacity to impose severe physical cost s on attackers at an
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for an illustration of this phenomenon ) . 82 Option #3 (shown on right side of Figure 18 ) represents a power projection tactic where organisms incre
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point towards the same desired end state, something the author calls the infinitely prosperous organism . We can define an infinitely prosperous organ
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below. 87 Figure 19 : Illustration of the “Grow C A First, Grow B A Second” Survival Strategy using Bowtie Notation Now let’s consider a multistep sce
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. Figure 20 : Step 1 of “Bigger Fish” Scenario We have established that organisms with high BCR A levels are likely to be devoured by hungry neighbors
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. 88 Figure 21 : Step 2 of “Bigger Fish” Scenario Now let’s say organisms #1, #5, and #6 start cooperating to form a multicellular organism named A lp
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. Figure 22 : Step 3 of “Bigger Fish” Scenario We now have a situation where the environment has changed to become substantially more hazardous for th
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. 89 Figure 23 : Step 4 of “Bigger Fish” Scenario The “Bigger Fish” scenario illustrates how keeping one’s BCR A fixed is not enough for survival when
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. Figure 24 : Bowtie Notation of Organisms Forming Organizations 93 Given what we know about “cooperate - or - die” survival dynamics and the existent
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, demonstrably capable of achieving high levels of prosperity in comparison to non - cooperative organisms. When highly cohesive packs function as sin
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Bowtie Representation of Domestication . This type of exploitation is possible because many pack animals employ a specialized workforce devoted to the
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Bowtie Representation of Domestication The primary value - delivered function of domestication is to make it easier for humans to exploit the labor an
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. But w hen more packs adopt this same pecking order strategy, it drives the environment’s hazardous BCR A level down and compels other packs to adopt
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Bowtie Representation of Different Pecking Order Heuristics 108 3.11. 3 Modeling Physical Power - Based Resource Control Protocols It is possible to m
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7 , the next step in modeling a physical power - based resource control protocol is to model the controllers within the system. By default, every memb
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7 . 109 Figure 2 7 : Physical Power - Based Resource Control Protocol used in the Wild (Part 1 /4) As discussed at the beginning of this chapter, reso
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7 . Additionally, Members don’t get to eat unless Power Projectors are willing to use their power to gain and maintain access to the pack’s resources
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. 110 Figure 28 : Physical Power - Based Resource Control Protocol used in the Wild (Part 2 /4) Even though Power Projectors have seemingly disproport
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. 111 Figure 29 : Physical Power - Based Resource Control Protocol used in the Wild (Complete Build) 3.12 The Beauty of Antler s “There wasn’t enlight
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. 112 Figure 30 : A Power Projection Strategy Prone to Causing Injury For animal packs which adopt physical power - based resource control protocols,
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. Figure 31 : Awkward - Looking & Underappreciated Power Projection Technology The geometry of antlers makes them prone to entanglement with other ant
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. [68] Figure 32 : Comparison Between a Sapien t Brain and That of its Closest - Surviving Ancestor H umans can a fford to power their large neocortic
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emerged from Africa at least 200 ,000 to 300,000 years ago and expanded into Europe as the ice melted. Despite their physiological similarities, sapie
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An Anatomically Modern Homosapien with its Characteristically Large Forehead It should be noted that s apiens are first and foremost hunter - gatherin
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. The author defines the concrete reality in front of a human’s eyes as objective physical reality , the domain of energy, matter, space, and time whi
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Illustration of the Bi - Directional Nature of Abstract Thinking T he reality behind a human’s eyes can be defined as subjective abstract reality , a
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. The blue and black scribbles drawn above and below the grey dashed line are identical in every way except for th eir topology. Simply change the ir
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Illustration of How Practically Impossible it is Not to Think Symbolically 4 . 3 How to Detect if Something is Real “We suffer more often in imagin at
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below. Figure 36 : Model of a Realness - Verification Algorithm Performed by Sapient Brains [76, 77] Because of the physical constraints associated wi
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. Unaware of the fact that the snake is n’t real , the brain’s host will take quick and decisive maneuvers to avoid what could be a serious threat . F
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. Whenever sapiens wonder or doubt if an object is physically real or not , the commonly accepted protocol is to attempt to manually generate the phys
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The Poking/Pinching Realness - Verification Protocol [76, 77] It’s a simple and effective protocol. Not sure if an object is real? Try pok ing it. Not
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. Thanks to their big brains, humans were able to develop strategies which enabled them to increase the BCR A of their target s by reducing their C A
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Primordial Economic Dynamics of Hunting 132 For example, i nstead of trying to take on a powerful herd of caribou in an open field like a pride of lio
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. Figure 40 : Illustration of a Hunting Strategy Mastered by Humans A herd of caribou is quite powerful and can impose a lot of physical cost on attac
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as the “high C A zone”). But caribou can’t impose severe physical costs on attackers as effectively when they’re wedged in the bottom of a canyon with
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as the “low C A zone”) . Thus, an effective hunting strategy for increasing the BCR A of a herd of caribou is to predict their migration patterns and
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, if fish had eyelids or contort - able muscles in their face s to communicate pain the same way mammals do, the experience of fishing would probably
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Example of how Fish Communicate Differently than Mammals Both a nthropologists and biologists have theorized that the double - standard in predatory h
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. 138 Figure 42 : Illustration of the Metacognitive Impact of Storytelling (forming Shared Abstract Reality) [76] Figure 42 shows how people create an
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. 148 Figure 43 : A God - King Exploiting a Population’s Belief System To better understand how vulnerable sapient belief systems are to psychological
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, h uman history seems to work in cycles, where societies get comfortable and complacent with their high - functioning belief systems and stop project
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A Repeating Cycle of Human History When human populations become too docile or domesticated, either their territory get s physically captured , or the
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provides a breakdown of some of the characteristics of physical power using a real example . Here, Captain Elizabeth Eastman is pictured doing a pre -
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Captain Elizabeth Eastman does a P re - F light I nspection of her A - 10 Thunderbolt II . This is an Illustration of Real Power (i.e. P hysical P owe
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provides a breakdown of the characteristics of abstract power using another real example . Here, Chief Justice Dudley is pictured presiding over the S
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Chief Justice Anthony Dudley Presides Over the Supreme Court of Gibraltar . This is an i llustration of Imaginary Power (i.e. A bstract power or R ank
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. 158 Figure 47 : False Positive Correlation Produced by the Brain’s Realness - Verification Algorithm [88, 90, 76, 89] As a quick side note, while th
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. • Step 1: Use storytelling skills to convince a population to adopt a belief system with a desired theological, philosophical, or ideological stat e
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A Strategy for Passive - Aggressively Creating and Wielding Abstract Power The first step of creating abstract power is to use one’s storytelling and
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and Figure 50 compare both resource control systems ( see s ection 3. 11 for a more thor ough explanation of Figure 49 ). 171 Figure 49 : Model of the
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Model of the Resource Control Structure attempted by Neolithic Sapiens [90, 76] At first glance, PPB and APB resource control s tructures look the sam
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. Figure 51 : Bowtie Illustration of How to Domesticate Humans 188 Tying this point back to the core concepts presented in the previous chapter, a bst
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for a refresher ). History makes it clear that abstrac t power hierarchies which focus too much attention on resource abundance, but too little attent
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. This model accounts for the fact that agrarian society attempts to use abstract power to manage the state of ownership and chain of custody of their
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A More Accurate Model of the Resource Control Structure Adopted by Modern Society [88, 90, 76, 89] This model contains the same controllers as the pre
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provides an illustration of the resulting national strategic security dilemma (note this is exactly the same figure as Figure 16 ) . except with a dif
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Illustration of the National Strategic Security Dilemma 219 The national strategic security dilemma puts all nations into a predicament where they hav
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shows a bowtie representation of national strategic security dynamics. Here the author illustrates how it’s possible to b oil the complex dynamics of
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Bowtie Notation of the Primordial Economic Dynamics of National Strategic Security The top l eft portion of this figure shows individual nations proje
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. Figure 55 : How the Cycle of War Creates a “Blockchain” Countless people have been sent to early graves, warning future generations through bone tra
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using two evalu ation criteria: (1) how efficient they are, and (2) how much physical power they have the capacity to produce. The efficiency of a giv
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Evolution of Physical Power Projection Technologies Developed by Agrarian Society [88, 89, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122] S trategic nuclear warhe
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. 233 4 . 1 2 . 2 Kinetic Stalemate s Don’t Create Peace ; They Create Major Systemic Security Hazard s Sapiens could be described as an Icarus - like
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. By choosing to engage in non - nuclear forms of kinetic warfare, agrarian society is essentially trying to fork its evolutionary path . The pro blem
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Evolution of Physical Power Projection Technology, Shown with an Attempted Fork [88, 89, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123] N ations have start e
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. In this future, nations would increasingly rely on “soft” form s of non - kinetic power projection that involves charges passing across resistors ,
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Evolution of Physical Power Projection Technology, Shown with Non - Kinetic End State [88, 89, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123] T o put it simp
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. Figure 59 : Illustration of the Difference Between Traditional Language and Machine Code [137, 76] By issuing computing instructions to a general -
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. Because the motion of the actors matches a scenario imagined by the neocortex, people are quick to believe the imaginary scenario is physically real
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False Positive Correlation Produced by the Brain’s Realness - Verification Algorithm [76, 138] By now the reader may be asking, w hat does Shakespeare
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. 262 Figure 61 : Example of a Logically Flawed Engineering Design that’s Physically Impossible “ The flexibility of software ,” Leveson explains , “
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, people are losing their grip on reality – on understanding what’s real versus what’s virtual – by losing sight of the fact that all computer program
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Modern Agrarian Homosapien Losing His Grip on Physical Reality This trend could have major implications on population - scale security . The inability
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. Figure 63 : Software Administrators with Abstract Power over Digital - Age Resources Unfortunately, the general public doesn’t appear to understand
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. Figure 64 : A Repeating Pattern of Human Power Projection Tactics [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 149, 150, 151, 152] Without this type of new warfighting protocol,
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. 287 Figure 65 : Illustration of Two Ways to Constrain a Computer Program [154] This observation has subtle but important implications for cyber secu
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. 289 Figure 66 : “Chain Down” Design Concept for Physically Constraining Computers [154, 155] Knowing that such a protocol is theoretically possible,
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. 290 Figure 67 : Security Protocol Design Concept of a Deliberately Inefficient State Mechanism [156, 154] Herein lies a nother key insigh t that man
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. The first step is to create an algorithm that is so computationally difficult to solve that it imposes excess physical cos t ( a.k.a. watts) on comp
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Visualization of the Two - step Process of Adam Back’s Physical Cost Function Protocol [158, 159, 160] Finding the right hashing algorithm to achieve
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, Back’s physical cost function protocol can be visualized as a black box with a single input and a single output. The input is a vacuum of real - wor
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. Figure 69 : Illustration of Two Different Types of Control Signals [160] The arrow on the left represents a typical “low - cost” control signal sent
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. Figure 70 : Design Concept of a “Proof - of - Power Wall” Cyber Security API [160] Proof - of - Power wall protocols could work by simply rejecting
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. Figure 71 : Illustration of the “ Electro - Cyber Dome” Concept using Proof - of - Power Wall APIs [137] A n electro - c yber dome is a passive powe
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. 302 Figure 72 : Bitcoin is a Recursive System Which Secures Itself Behind its Own “ Electro - Cyber Dome” [163] 5 . 9 Novel Computer Theor y a bout
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. Figure 73 : Utilizing the Global Electric Power Grid as a Computer [168, 169] 306 Bitcoin demonstrates that it’s possible to create a computer progr
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. Figure 74 : Planetary - Scale Computer Design Concept [170, 171] But what could possibly be the benefit of turning the electronic circuitry outside
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. 309 Figure 75 : Using a Planetary Computer to “Chain Down” Regular Computers [169, 154, 156] 5.9. 5 A Planetary - Scale Computer could Dramatically
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. Figure 76 : Difference between Regular Computer Programs and Physical Cost Function Protocols It’s incontrovertibly true that physical cost function
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. Figure 77 : Bitcoin is a Physical Cost Function Protocol which Utilizes the Planet as a Computer [170, 171, 173] P hysical cost function protocols a
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. Figure 78 : Illustration of how Physical Cost Functions Convert Quantities of Power into Bits [158, 174] There are very real, very meaningful system
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. Figure 79 : Bi - Directional Abstract Thought & Symbolism Applied to a Planetary Computer [170, 171] The idea of using planetary - scale computing s
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(synaptic feedback systems don’t help with this because they’re equally as artificially generated as the symbols on a screen or the sounds from comput
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A Capability Gap for Brains Operating in the Abstract Reality Known as Cyberspace [76] Sapiens arbitrarily chose to describe the internet as if it wer
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. 320 Figure 81 : Theoretical Effect of Plugging a Planetary - Scale State Mechanism into the Internet [168, 169] 321 As of now , these ideas are noth
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. This means that the abstractions peopl e use to describe the complex emergent behavior of ordinary programs are both physically and systemically dif
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Illustration of Physical and Systemic Differences between Technologies [176] I t is physically impossible for a “coin” generated by an ordinary comput
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. Figure 83 : Illustrating the Physical Differences between Different Technologies [169, 154, 156] Physical cost function protocols (a.k.a. proof - of
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. 327 Figure 84 : Breakdown of a Proof - of - Work Tech Stack [169, 177, 154, 156] These theoretics emphasize the point that Bitcoin represents a phys
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. Figure 85 : Illustration of the Difference Between Proof - of - Work & Proof - of - Stake Protocols [169, 177, 154, 178, 179, 90, 88, 89, 76] T o pe
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provides a side - by - side comparison between the control structure model of a p roof - of - w ork system and a p roof - of - s take system. The read
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Side - by - Side Comparison between Proof - of - Wor k Proof - of - Stake Resource Control Models [76, 177] As introduced through the concepts of Powe
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. 337 Figure 87 : Software Administrators with “Stake” in Ethereum 2.0 Not surprisingly for anyone who understands power projection tactics in human s
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. 338 Figure 88 : Graphical Illustration of Bitpower Concept [169, 177, 154, 178] Unlike most software specifications , it is important for the reader
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9 . Figure 8 9 : Illustration of the Difference Between Public Perception & Reality of Bitcoin’s Dominance [183] 340 C onsidering how Bitcoin’s functi
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. [185] Figure 90 : Gabriel's Horn Gabriel’s h orn (the geometrical shape) is noteworthy because it has special mathematical properties. The volume of
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. 343 Figure 91 : Visualizing Nakamoto’s Bitpower Tokens as Surface Area on a Gabriel’s Horn Now may be a good time to remind the reader tha t using o
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provides an illustration of the paradoxical dynamics of how Nakamoto’s design converts physical power to bitpower. The real - world, infinitely - expa
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Logically Paradoxical Power Conversion Dynamics of Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Protocol The left side of th is image illustrates the expanding supply volume of
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. 352 Figure 93 : Illustration of the Third Step added by Finney’s Physical Cost Function Protocol [158, 159, 160] Finney ’s solution to the double -
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. But more notably than that, Bitcoin represents the only globally - adopt able physical power projection technology that is practically useful for na
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Evolution of Physical Power Projection Technologies, with Bitcoin Shown as End State [88, 89, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123] Physical cost fu
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, t he end state of this global - scale electro - cyber power projection competition is not mutually assured destruction, it's mutually assured preser
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. 369 Figure 95 : Comparison between “Hard” and “Soft” Warfighting Dynamics 370 Chapter 6 : Recommendations & Conclusion “ Unless mankind’s attention
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. 380 Figure 96 : Notional Combatant Component Dedicated to Securing Allied Hashing Industry [192] 6.3.3 Consider the Idea of Protecting Bitcoin under
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. 385 Figure 97 : Illustration of Softwar Concept [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 149, 150, 151, 152] The bottom line is that Bitcoin could represent the emergence of