> just like cars don't really exist because they aren't in the ontology of physics If I understand you correctly, that's a pretty harsh criterion for existence

> just like cars don't really exist because they aren't in the ontology of physics If I understand you correctly, that's a pretty harsh criterion for existence, isn't it? Even though a car is just a composite of metal atoms under a precise configuration and not a metaphysical entity on itself, you can still use it to drive you home. I suppose that makes me an utilitarian. > No, there is concurrency but not parallelism. You're right, my bad. I've forgotten my precision from my college days. Still, that's good enough for the program, just like my consciousness is good enough for me, even if it's entirely mechanistic and doesn't exist in the same way that cars don't exist.