Money as a social invention Money as a social invention Conrad Hopman Conrad Hopman here describes the background to a computerised multi-barter system that he has created. In a sense the whole universe is an exchange medium. Observable reality can only be observed because it is information.
Information is meaning and meanings define each other in context.
To be observed, reality must change so it can induce changes in the observer - activate nerve cells, affect information stored in the brain. Since meanings define each other, the spacetime-meaning continuum curves around to redefine itself in indefinitely many ways without beginning or end. Just as physical substances such as alcohol or drugs can affect the mind, so creative changes in the mind can affect the whole physical universe in a process which takes place outside of spacetime. This is the essence of magic. Humankind could thus perhaps take a more important part in the process of joyful creative exchange which surrounds it.