Updating our software...Transporting worldview... Sun Gazing.

What if the very fabric of our digital existence, the knowledge we consume, and the decisions we make, are fundamentally constrained by an unseen barrier within our own minds? And what if the systems built around us – from education to information – amplify these limits, creating a hidden crisis of understanding?

At Mental Wealth Academy, we believe recognizing this challenge is the first step towards a cognizant solution. We're building a decentralized AI network for education, designed to transcend these inherent limitations and unlock a new era of human consciousness and collective wisdom.

To understand where we're going, we must first confront the past.

Galileo proved the world orbited the sun, yet nobody believed him. His work demanded curiosity, yet society’s resistance underscored a cognitive dissonance: the destruction of their worldview. His struggle was scientific and cultural, as his truth sought to shift society from an outdated belief.

Today, we face a similar challenge in combating the degradation of knowledge—While ascending toward's the next generation of education, knowledge of inequity must become sentient. We cannot allow the misconceptions of new tools such as Blockchain, Crypto, & NFTs to be tainted by journalism and untruths. Reaching enlightenment as a collective requires faith that things can be different.

The 10-Bit Bottleneck: Our Brain's Hidden Filter

Let's begin with a mind-bending truth, one that fundamentally shapes our experience: you think at a speed of roughly 10 bits per second.

Yes, 10 bits. To put that in perspective, a standard Wi-Fi connection can process millions of bits per second. Every waking moment, your senses are bombarded with trillions of bits of information. Yet, your brain, that incredible biological supercomputer, actively filters all but a tiny fraction, using only those precious 10 bits to construct your entire perception of reality and inform your decisions.

This isn't a flaw; it's an evolutionary marvel. Our brains adapted to survive in a physically demanding world, not to navigate an infinite digital ocean. But this "10-bit bottleneck" creates a profound paradox: What is our brain doing to filter all this information, and what are we missing in the process?

The Echo Chamber of Experience: How Environment Shapes Perception

The answer to that paradox is deeply unsettling: our brains filter information based on our foundational experiences. A child born into a religious household is highly likely to adopt those beliefs. Similarly, a society steeped in systemic issues – be it wealth segregation, racial bias, or exploitative economic models – inevitably imprints those values onto the minds of its citizens.

Humans absorb advice, philosophy, and culture from their environment through this narrow, 10-bit funnel, constantly filtering out the "trillions" of other perspectives and facts the world offers. This isn't about inherent malice in our parents or systems; it’s a proof-of-work of how deeply ingrained these foundational values become, naturally disregarding problematic patterns until collective awareness forces a reckoning.

Consider labor unions or food stamps – protections born from a need to counter exploitation in a system where labor was valued over human dignity. The very existence of these safeguards points to a history of widespread exploitation, rooted in structures like chattel slavery. The past bleeds into the present, shaping our collective consciousness through these unseen filters.

My biggest fear isn't just that these systems persist. It's that society's collective ability to process bits towards truth, unity, and clarity is being further corrupted. Our 10-bit brains, craving dopamine, are increasingly drawn to hyper-optimized, fragmented content: short-form videos, endless memes, fleeting entertainment. This isn't just distraction; it's a constant rewiring of our filters, making us less capable of deep, critical engagement with complex truths.

We are not advocating for blind rage against these systems. That’s like shouting at the wind. But we are advocating for the development of tools to provide concrete statistics and facts that can show us why the wind should not blow in certain destructive directions. Without structured thought and accessible knowledge, criticism devolves into "jealousy" or "mental illness" – ad-hominem attacks born from an inability to concisely organize a point of view.

A 20-member University Board of Governors is responsible for planning and coordinating development and operation of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education. The Board establishes broad educational, fiscal, and personnel policies, and oversees the efficient management of the State System.

These members decide which programs are added, which courses are focused on, and other things that pertain to the goals of the state. They oversee university operations and you've probably never even heard of them cause typical knowledge of these things are not as popular as viral tiktoks.

Board of Governors | PA State System of Higher Education

A 20-member Board of Governors is responsible for planning and coordinating development and operation of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.

https://www.passhe.edu

The board is a great prototype for a knowledge consensus, but is still fairly gatekept considering House and Senate are involved. It also doesn't solve the debt issue, or address real problems as it's still focused on the foundational level, diversity education. The board is somewhat democratized but it lacks updated tools that software like blockchain and crypto provides. Updating... transparent and fair voting onchain.

Traditional academic governance operates under the pretense of democratic decision-making while perpetuating systemic inefficiencies. Consider Pennsylvania's Board of Governors: twenty individuals determining the educational trajectory of thousands, operating through antiquated voting mechanisms and bureaucratic processes that mirror Galileo's era of institutional resistance. This isn't merely an administrative shortcoming—it represents a fundamental misalignment between modern technological capabilities and educational governance.

The evolution toward blockchain-enabled academic governance illuminates a critical paradox in knowledge distribution. Just as Galileo's telescopic observations threatened established power structures, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) challenge traditional academic hierarchies. These digital governance systems don't simply replicate existing voting structures online; they fundamentally transform how educational decisions emerge from collective intelligence. Through transparent, immutable voting records and programmatic consensus mechanisms, DAOs eliminate the performative aspects of traditional board meetings while amplifying genuine collaborative decision-making.

In typical Academia, In Pennsylvania, the Board of Governors and the university's Council of Trustees are responsible for making academic decisions for colleges and universities.

Mental Wealth Academy's Knowledge Consensus is more demure. This structure of voting involves distinct use of Crypto & NFTs to account for all members, empowering them to control platform decisions and changes. The knowledge consensus is often referred to as a DAO, but it can also be referenced as a digital voting booth, or place where shareholders meet where everything is transparent and trust-less¹.

The Foundational Level of the Academy focuses on creating and executing common proposals. By requiring majority consensus and involving over 20 members in decision-making, it combats knowledge degradation through collective collaboration and shared accountability.

The Expert Level and Academy Board DAO represent the highest tiers of the Knowledge Consensus, where transformative governance and specialized decision-making occur. The Academy Board DAO oversees higher-order decisions, balancing inclusivity with fairness by inviting broad participation while maintaining a structured, trust-based voting system. This modern approach avoids inefficiencies of traditional boards, such as stagnant discussions and performative policies, by leveraging decentralization and advanced technologies.

The Expert Level operates through the Tripartite Model, where expert community members address larger bounties requiring specialized strategies. A third of the community participates in votes to mitigate biases, ensuring equitable decision-making. Integrating randomness—a method validated by disciplines like statistics, sociology, and psychology—further enhances fairness by exposing latent issues and producing more robust consensus outcomes.

Traditional power structures in education suffer from a fundamental misalignment between authority and competence. While aging institutions cling to hierarchies based on tenure and tradition, technological governance offers a more rational alternative. Through blockchain-enabled systems like DAOs and digital assets, we can create educational environments where authority flows naturally to those demonstrating actual capability rather than mere longevity. This shift mirrors how digital networks have transformed other sectors: replacing rigid hierarchies with dynamic, merit-based systems.

Access Unsequestered Knowledge: By building on Web3 principles, we ensure that high-quality, structured learning is accessible to everyone, regardless of wealth or background. Imagine a global network where true masters of subjects can connect directly with eager learners, bypassing traditional gatekeepers. Utilizing AI, becomes a voice to rally up, and tally up the voiceless and construct their feedback into a structured prompt, creating a dynamic weighted vote to represent them.

We like to imagine ourselves as the future of schooling, an online digital space where you can sit at different lunch-tables, talk to people, and build meaningful and long-lasting connections. Mental Wealth Academy is a consensus that's dedicated to nurturing human potential, educational growth, and financial independence.

We do this by making high-quality information low-cost.

Our reverence for physical university represents a commitment to the architecture that's defined knowledge and transmission. While they actively hinder global intellectual progress, it's good to pay respect and acknowledge the positives of our enemy as well.

Traditional universities operate as intellectual aristocracies, where knowledge is valued, respected, and viewed as a sacral path to the next stage of life.

By contrast, blockchain-based educational systems create a merit-based marketplace of ideas where credentials are earned through demonstrated competence rather than time served. This shift mirrors open-source nature of GitHub; where open-source contributions can carry more weight than formal degrees.

The resistance to this transformation comes not from pedagogical concerns, but from the financial ecosystem that employs them. Digital inertia only benefits technological disruption & chaos. Time is now, Decentralize.

Digital etiquette is often a misunderstood concept, I've adopted the unique phrase "netiquette" which is cute and polite way of saying we need to have manners online as well, it isn't a place for derogatory and hateful remarks to be labeled as "free speech". Free speech can be dangerous, just as a beautiful piece of a painting, the outer rim of a garden, can be broken off, and hurled with force of the arm into a weapon.

Human connection is essential for cognitive and emotional health. As social beings, our brains thrive on relationships; and without them, they atrophy. Bridging class divides requires diversity and wealth education, which foster understanding and meaningful bonds. Diversity education ensures minority voices feel valued and secure, while curiosity and openness encourage tribal unity. Paired with emerging technologies and collaborative tools, these efforts can create equitable opportunities for financial and social integration, addressing systemic gaps with shared purpose.

Let's update our worldview, and believe in the sun.

Updating our software...Transporting worldview... Sun Gazing.

What if the very fabric of our digital existence, the knowledge we consume, and the decisions we make, are fundamentally constrained by an unseen barrier within our own minds? And what if the systems built around us – from education to information – amplify these limits, creating a hidden crisis of understanding?

At Mental Wealth Academy, we believe recognizing this challenge is the first step towards a cognizant solution. We're building a decentralized AI network for education, designed to transcend these inherent limitations and unlock a new era of human consciousness and collective wisdom.

To understand where we're going, we must first confront the past.

Galileo proved the world orbited the sun, yet nobody believed him. His work demanded curiosity, yet society’s resistance underscored a cognitive dissonance: the destruction of their worldview. His struggle was scientific and cultural, as his truth sought to shift society from an outdated belief.

Today, we face a similar challenge in combating the degradation of knowledge—While ascending toward's the next generation of education, knowledge of inequity must become sentient. We cannot allow the misconceptions of new tools such as Blockchain, Crypto, & NFTs to be tainted by journalism and untruths. Reaching enlightenment as a collective requires faith that things can be different.

The 10-Bit Bottleneck: Our Brain's Hidden Filter

Let's begin with a mind-bending truth, one that fundamentally shapes our experience: you think at a speed of roughly 10 bits per second.

Yes, 10 bits. To put that in perspective, a standard Wi-Fi connection can process millions of bits per second. Every waking moment, your senses are bombarded with trillions of bits of information. Yet, your brain, that incredible biological supercomputer, actively filters all but a tiny fraction, using only those precious 10 bits to construct your entire perception of reality and inform your decisions.

This isn't a flaw; it's an evolutionary marvel. Our brains adapted to survive in a physically demanding world, not to navigate an infinite digital ocean. But this "10-bit bottleneck" creates a profound paradox: What is our brain doing to filter all this information, and what are we missing in the process?

The Echo Chamber of Experience: How Environment Shapes Perception

The answer to that paradox is deeply unsettling: our brains filter information based on our foundational experiences. A child born into a religious household is highly likely to adopt those beliefs. Similarly, a society steeped in systemic issues – be it wealth segregation, racial bias, or exploitative economic models – inevitably imprints those values onto the minds of its citizens.

Humans absorb advice, philosophy, and culture from their environment through this narrow, 10-bit funnel, constantly filtering out the "trillions" of other perspectives and facts the world offers. This isn't about inherent malice in our parents or systems; it’s a proof-of-work of how deeply ingrained these foundational values become, naturally disregarding problematic patterns until collective awareness forces a reckoning.

Consider labor unions or food stamps – protections born from a need to counter exploitation in a system where labor was valued over human dignity. The very existence of these safeguards points to a history of widespread exploitation, rooted in structures like chattel slavery. The past bleeds into the present, shaping our collective consciousness through these unseen filters.

My biggest fear isn't just that these systems persist. It's that society's collective ability to process bits towards truth, unity, and clarity is being further corrupted. Our 10-bit brains, craving dopamine, are increasingly drawn to hyper-optimized, fragmented content: short-form videos, endless memes, fleeting entertainment. This isn't just distraction; it's a constant rewiring of our filters, making us less capable of deep, critical engagement with complex truths.

We are not advocating for blind rage against these systems. That’s like shouting at the wind. But we are advocating for the development of tools to provide concrete statistics and facts that can show us why the wind should not blow in certain destructive directions. Without structured thought and accessible knowledge, criticism devolves into "jealousy" or "mental illness" – ad-hominem attacks born from an inability to concisely organize a point of view.

A 20-member University Board of Governors is responsible for planning and coordinating development and operation of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education. The Board establishes broad educational, fiscal, and personnel policies, and oversees the efficient management of the State System.

These members decide which programs are added, which courses are focused on, and other things that pertain to the goals of the state. They oversee university operations and you've probably never even heard of them cause typical knowledge of these things are not as popular as viral tiktoks.

Board of Governors | PA State System of Higher Education

A 20-member Board of Governors is responsible for planning and coordinating development and operation of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.

https://www.passhe.edu

The board is a great prototype for a knowledge consensus, but is still fairly gatekept considering House and Senate are involved. It also doesn't solve the debt issue, or address real problems as it's still focused on the foundational level, diversity education. The board is somewhat democratized but it lacks updated tools that software like blockchain and crypto provides. Updating... transparent and fair voting onchain.

Traditional academic governance operates under the pretense of democratic decision-making while perpetuating systemic inefficiencies. Consider Pennsylvania's Board of Governors: twenty individuals determining the educational trajectory of thousands, operating through antiquated voting mechanisms and bureaucratic processes that mirror Galileo's era of institutional resistance. This isn't merely an administrative shortcoming—it represents a fundamental misalignment between modern technological capabilities and educational governance.

The evolution toward blockchain-enabled academic governance illuminates a critical paradox in knowledge distribution. Just as Galileo's telescopic observations threatened established power structures, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) challenge traditional academic hierarchies. These digital governance systems don't simply replicate existing voting structures online; they fundamentally transform how educational decisions emerge from collective intelligence. Through transparent, immutable voting records and programmatic consensus mechanisms, DAOs eliminate the performative aspects of traditional board meetings while amplifying genuine collaborative decision-making.

In typical Academia, In Pennsylvania, the Board of Governors and the university's Council of Trustees are responsible for making academic decisions for colleges and universities.

Mental Wealth Academy's Knowledge Consensus is more demure. This structure of voting involves distinct use of Crypto & NFTs to account for all members, empowering them to control platform decisions and changes. The knowledge consensus is often referred to as a DAO, but it can also be referenced as a digital voting booth, or place where shareholders meet where everything is transparent and trust-less¹.

The Foundational Level of the Academy focuses on creating and executing common proposals. By requiring majority consensus and involving over 20 members in decision-making, it combats knowledge degradation through collective collaboration and shared accountability.

The Expert Level and Academy Board DAO represent the highest tiers of the Knowledge Consensus, where transformative governance and specialized decision-making occur. The Academy Board DAO oversees higher-order decisions, balancing inclusivity with fairness by inviting broad participation while maintaining a structured, trust-based voting system. This modern approach avoids inefficiencies of traditional boards, such as stagnant discussions and performative policies, by leveraging decentralization and advanced technologies.

The Expert Level operates through the Tripartite Model, where expert community members address larger bounties requiring specialized strategies. A third of the community participates in votes to mitigate biases, ensuring equitable decision-making. Integrating randomness—a method validated by disciplines like statistics, sociology, and psychology—further enhances fairness by exposing latent issues and producing more robust consensus outcomes.

Traditional power structures in education suffer from a fundamental misalignment between authority and competence. While aging institutions cling to hierarchies based on tenure and tradition, technological governance offers a more rational alternative. Through blockchain-enabled systems like DAOs and digital assets, we can create educational environments where authority flows naturally to those demonstrating actual capability rather than mere longevity. This shift mirrors how digital networks have transformed other sectors: replacing rigid hierarchies with dynamic, merit-based systems.

Access Unsequestered Knowledge: By building on Web3 principles, we ensure that high-quality, structured learning is accessible to everyone, regardless of wealth or background. Imagine a global network where true masters of subjects can connect directly with eager learners, bypassing traditional gatekeepers. Utilizing AI, becomes a voice to rally up, and tally up the voiceless and construct their feedback into a structured prompt, creating a dynamic weighted vote to represent them.

We like to imagine ourselves as the future of schooling, an online digital space where you can sit at different lunch-tables, talk to people, and build meaningful and long-lasting connections. Mental Wealth Academy is a consensus that's dedicated to nurturing human potential, educational growth, and financial independence.

We do this by making high-quality information low-cost.

Our reverence for physical university represents a commitment to the architecture that's defined knowledge and transmission. While they actively hinder global intellectual progress, it's good to pay respect and acknowledge the positives of our enemy as well.

Traditional universities operate as intellectual aristocracies, where knowledge is valued, respected, and viewed as a sacral path to the next stage of life.

By contrast, blockchain-based educational systems create a merit-based marketplace of ideas where credentials are earned through demonstrated competence rather than time served. This shift mirrors open-source nature of GitHub; where open-source contributions can carry more weight than formal degrees.

The resistance to this transformation comes not from pedagogical concerns, but from the financial ecosystem that employs them. Digital inertia only benefits technological disruption & chaos. Time is now, Decentralize.

Digital etiquette is often a misunderstood concept, I've adopted the unique phrase "netiquette" which is cute and polite way of saying we need to have manners online as well, it isn't a place for derogatory and hateful remarks to be labeled as "free speech". Free speech can be dangerous, just as a beautiful piece of a painting, the outer rim of a garden, can be broken off, and hurled with force of the arm into a weapon.

Human connection is essential for cognitive and emotional health. As social beings, our brains thrive on relationships; and without them, they atrophy. Bridging class divides requires diversity and wealth education, which foster understanding and meaningful bonds. Diversity education ensures minority voices feel valued and secure, while curiosity and openness encourage tribal unity. Paired with emerging technologies and collaborative tools, these efforts can create equitable opportunities for financial and social integration, addressing systemic gaps with shared purpose.

Let's update our worldview, and believe in the sun.