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Now, however, the emerging technology of crypto and web3 — specifically, programmable blockchains, composable smart contracts, and digital assets — makes it possible for decentralized systems to achieve unprecedented levels of coordination and operational functionality. This evolution enables new forms of governance and organizations, community-owned-and-operated networks and services, robust economies, and countless other innovations.
Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How
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In the view of William James, as of Leonard Woolf and Montaigne, we do not live immured in our separate perspectives, like Descartes in his room. We live porously and sociably. We can glide out of our own minds, if only for a few moments, in order to occupy another being’s point of view. This ability is the real meaning of “Be convivial,” this chapter’s answer to the question of how to live, and the best hope for civilization.
How to Live
Sarah Bakewell
Once again, it is all about understanding mindstates and what motivated your behaviour. In fact, this process seems to underpin the very processes of remembering. Studies by psychologists suggest that when a witness at a criminal trial recalls what happened, they don’t replay a video of what happened; rather, they remember general principles such as likely motivations, and reconstruct the events to fit their understanding of the underlying motivations – which explains why witnesses often disagree even though they saw the same event.
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