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 The «thing» part in software was integrated by copying the hardware model, but this model is a reversal of values: the «power-superiority» of the hard in software is the distributed, which has long been trying to come to the fore, first as open-source and now as #blockchain or protocols like #Nostr; this unwavering strength of the distributed is analogous to the individual experience of being at the center of the world, which is a center not only exoteric, but between «greater is greater» (hardware, exoteric) «and» «lesser is lesser» (software).