Maybe I've misunderstood you and you're not talking about what "about" means. Are you talking about how it seems impossible that we can decode the quarks into our perception of reality? And thus that while you agree everything is quarks, there's some intermediate scale helping us interpret that would be better identified as 'fundamental'? (If I'm wrong just downvote once, and I'll delete, I don't want to make this thread more confusing.
Haha if I just downvoted it, then I wouldn't be able to explain what I do mean.
I'm simply attempting to disagree with the logical necessity of reductionism. I said this earlier, I thought it was pretty clear:
My contention is that it's possible to reduce the levels, but not logically necessary-- and I support this contention with the fact that we don't necessarily collapse the levels in our reasoning, and we can't collapse the levels in our imagination.
So, the fact that a painting has a subject is a good example of this: I can't imagine the specific dif...
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