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Lauren McMac's avatar

‘It’s all Greek to me’

that would be me. same sense I had when

first introduced to micro and macro economics

in a class room.

Christopher Paulin's avatar

I broke down the word token to be a souvenir, and I took apart the French word souvenir. To understand something, one breaks it in pieces. Anything to big to understand needs to be broken down to its parts. The word origin (etymology) takes abstract concepts like memory and turns it in something that you can see like holding something in your hand (under the object). Tokens are like spoons (any container) of memories of what we do. I hold a cloth. Memory holds ideas.

It seems like what they crave is to hold our memories of what we do, that is to say, to track us. They can not mind read, so they use computers to do the work and to hold the memories. Token is a fancy way of saying memory.

Lauren McMac's avatar

very helpful and appreciated!

Char's avatar

This stuff is above my brain power. I am too old for this world and I'd like to get out of it. Come Lord Jesus and take us to your place where there is no computers or technology.

Bob's avatar

Another step into being in a total digital world

Digital jail, however you want call it

there is zero logic for the need of tokens

Anything a token represents is represented today without the use of tokens

Idiocracy 2026

Christopher Paulin's avatar

I had another thought. A token is a memory, and God holds all memories. God is the ultimate tokenizer that the elite want to become. They want to become gods.

omniscient /ɑmˈnɪʃənt/

adj.

having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding.

They want to conquer the world, as the Romans wanted to do.

A data center is a counterfeit (copy / imitate + to make) of God's brain. Satan imitates God, and then they get checkmate! They win their game.

Anglo-French cuntrefet, Old French contrefait, past participle of conterfere to copy, imitate, equivalent. to conter- counter- + fere to make, do Latin facere (see fact); (verb, verbal) Middle English countrefeten, verb, verbal derivative of countrefet

(adjective, adjectival) Middle English countrefet false, forged 1250–1300

Christopher Paulin's avatar

token -- an Old English word (tāc(e)n) that means memory (sign or mark [of the beast])

This word means memory, or holding something in the mind. I hold a tomato in my hand (under + come = souvenir, sous + venir).

bef. 900; Middle English; Old English tāc(e)n; cognate with German Zeichen, Old Norse teikn sign, mark. See teach

I go to the etymology (word origin, e.g., Old English) section of https://www.wordreference.com/definition/token.

Token is a word that comes from before year 900, and it means sign or mark.

a souvenir (sous = under, venir = to come, in French), to come under, to remember in English

It sounds like coming under something supports it (a table supports or holds the objects on the table), and that was memory in French, holding things like a table, a spoon, a cup, a floor, a road. A road holds a car, a pedestrian, a bicycle.

You remember it when you hold it in your mind.

I studied French, so I know exactly what that means.

French se souvenir de [qch/qqn] quelque chose/quelqu'un -- to remember to oneself (se) of something/someone

Je (I) me (to me) souviens (remember) de (of) quelque (some) chose (thing).

I remember to myself of something.

présent

je me souviens

tu te souviens

il, elle, on se souvient

nous nous souvenons

vous vous souvenez

ils, elles se souviennent

Christopher Paulin's avatar

venir = to come, I come, you come, he she one comes, we come, you all come, they come

revenue = came back, you sold, and money came back

participe passé : venu

past participle of venir, came = venu (masculine), venue (feminine)

I have come, you have come, he she one has come, etc.

-ven-, root.

-ven- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "come.'' This meaning is found in such words as: advent, adventure, avenue, circumvent, contravene, convene, convenience, convent, convention, covenant, event, eventual, inconvenience, inconvenient, intervene, invent, invention, inventory, misadventure, prevent, provenance, revenue, souvenir, unconventional, uneventful, venture, venturesome, venue.

Christopher Paulin's avatar

I think of artificial intelligence as a compiler of English. When you write a computer program in a computer language, it compiles that to 1010011 (binary). The English language is compiled by artificial intelligence to binary (on off on on off switches or transistors, 1's and 0's), and then it returns back English. We compile words to brain, then brain to words.

$a = 'Hello';

$b = 'world';

print "$a, $b"; # print "Hello, world" (# means start comment to the end of line)

The computer takes the Perl program above, thinks in binary, and prints "Hello, world" to the screen.

English => binary => English (now answering questions in English, not just printing variables)

Example:

How do I make my grape vine grow grapes that mature? (I have that problem that the grapes start small and then wither to nothing.)