Requiring that it has "plane-ness" seems like an unpackable ambiguous criteria. I am speaking on a simple functional level. Rather, a given iron atom is one of

Requiring that it has "plane-ness" seems like an unpackable ambiguous criteria. I am speaking on a simple functional level. Rather, a given iron atom is one of the atoms that make up a given 747, so it absolutely is (and here's where the tautology comes in) part of the distributed material that makes up the plane. Without such atoms there would be no plane. The same is being said here except with consciousness, no more.