What does a like or a favorite mean on any other social pla…
What does a like or a favorite mean on any other social platform? That they received entertainment, or value? It's almost like an empty "thanks". A little *ding*, number go up, and they move on.
On here, you are expressing gratitude by giving energy.
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Ideas enter a free market, each twetch becomes a competitor for surprise. The most surprising information are reproduced through time (by obtaining more energy, which is required for expression). The unsurprising and non-valuable leak energy until death.
I might not have expanded on this idea, but @3 increased its value, and I can afford to reproduce the signal across time. It's impossible for me to think about these things without thinking in terms of evolution and DNA-expression of information.
Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine
These base pairs form the informational structure of your DNA sequence, the replicating essence of your being
26 letters, punctuation, etc
Through segregation, self-reference, and specific patterns, language emerges
https://twetch.app/t/7fbd12b89ea07a2c571e40c228a623cb96a93285645b726e87f750abf1fd5f39
#7fbd12b89ea07a2c571e40c228a623cb96a93285645b726e87f750abf1fd5f39