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the short answer that you’re not going to like is that everything you’re describing is a human construction. it therefore exists in the minds of people as a con
by rantwasp 6y ago
the short answer that you’re not going to like is that everything you’re describing is a human construction. it therefore exists in the minds of people as a concept. we use it because it’s convenient.
a pure function that does not exist anywhere and nobody does not know about effectively does not exist.
philosophy is another things that is a human construction. a lot of our lives is lived inside our heads working with things we made up. it’s convention. you don’t get to ignore physics.
- jayd16 6y agoWell I think this is surely a cop out as a state machine is also a concept. Although If you are conceding we can't model all concepts with state machines then I think I'm satisfied.
- rantwasp 6y agohahaha. oh nooo. you’re not satisfied :) the initial discussion was about all physical object. since you cannot have concepts without representing them onto something physical (paper, in the memory of a computer, in brain, etc) it immediately follows that concepts exist only with a state machine substrate. therefore concepts, distilled to their essential components are (insanely large insanely distributed) state machines