Dear ThickAsThieves,
nature is not metaphysical as it follows the laws of physics. Those laws might not be in our grasp, we will never know them fully and we can never be sure that our senses are not deceived at any given time or even all the time. For what it is worth, all our experiences can be just a set of electrical signal implanted into our solipsistic brain (in a vat) by some sophisticated computer.
But some laws exists and nature unfolds by those laws.
Even if all intelligent life and imagination ceases to exists and even if the life itself ceases to exists, universe will still be here, existing, following the laws of nature (or laws of physics depending on what you mean by nature).
While you are correct that the laws of nature are not in our grasp, you underestimate the full scope and weight of that constant. You speak as if we could actually hold and understand such a thing as metaphysical as Nature itself. Nothing exists until it exists. Did fish dream of nuclear power before man created it? Did seaweed dream of singing before man discovered the breaking point of sound? Was the earth flat until it was round? Are we not just spermatozoa, thrust into a womb? This womb, our paradigm; these approximations, our laws.
Through perverting the laws of the past, we pave a path to the future. If laws only exist to be broken, are they not but momentary paradigms? Are not paradigms only windows into the metaphysical?
In this endless echo, how long will you persist? Laws of Physics are tiny pencil marks on a doorway. They define the height of our understanding, until they do not. Are we growing up, or growing old?
Metaphysical is laying beyond physics (or beside it, after it in the case of original books by Aristotle). Reasoning without empirical evidence, philosophy, even religion can intersect this domain. The part of reality existing only in our imaginations is... well our imagination only. It is beautiful woeul, but sitl bound, countable and abiding laws of logic.
What is metaphor? What is irony? What is satire? What is humor? All the questions of degree, of measure, of right proportions. Who decides what is appropriate, what is adequate, what is excessive or deficient? Each individual for himself. Although many of them desire their subjective measure to be objective.
Nothing can exists only in the present. Four-dimensional reality does not like infinitely thin objects in either of its dimensions. Although we are raping Minkowski now. There is no paradox. Only misunderstanding and multitudes of motivations, conceptualizations and expressions of single underlaying principle of Human Action. There is no painter.
Altcoin might aspire to be Proper class, which it is not. But thanks to Zermelo, choice of your Altcoin is logical.
Quite the opposite. What is time but just another measurement, another "law"? Time measures the distance between infinite echos. Marked by perceived observable events, events in which time exists for only a moment. Time is a stamp adhered to an e-mail.
Nature is infinite, it is perpetual. It happens before the beginning and after the end. The
only time you will ever see it, is right now.
Without Altcoin, all altcoins would be purposeless.