Of course most things do not "exist" if you demand physical material existence as semantics. soul -> doesn't exist. law -> doesn't exist. countries -> don't

Of course most things do not "exist" if you demand physical material existence as semantics. soul -> doesn't exist. law -> doesn't exist. countries -> don't exist justice, peace, war, good, evil -> don't exist computer programs -> don't exist hacker news -> doesn't exist and one might even say You don't exist. You're merely a set of partially filled ion channels in a bag of liquid some existing system likes to simulate for some reason. Just like minds seem to like to simulate God (which is independant of whether God has a physical manifestation or not). Your mind only exists in the same way God exists, no more, no less. God is simply found in more than a single bag of liquid. (I've studied AI, so I would argue the same -partially- applies to your mind, in that people with memories of you effectively simulate your mind to e.g. know if you'd agree or disagree with a proposal of theirs) And frankly, if I were free to choose, I wouldn't have a physical manifestation at all, if I didn't need it to affect the real world. In fact, I am a computer programmer, one way of describing that job would be that I spend my days making other physical systems do what I'd have to do myself otherwise. I'd love to cut out the middleman that is my body. It's fragile, it's distracting, it fails from time to time, it hurts sometimes, it communicates through talking and typing and that makes it fucking slow to communicate with, it's ... Why would you want that if you can avoid it ?