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EY says:
To me it is an irrelevant accident that physical objects, unlike informational objects, happen to be reducible to quarks. After all, if you accept the possibility that we live in a simulation, I see no reason other than laziness to use the same substrate for different entities. But I agree that the best examples come from "computationalism": the same FAT file system can be implemented in multiple ways, some reducible to magnetic domains on a floppy disk, others only to the API calls from a sandboxed virtual machine.
Not entirely. Electrons are not of quarks. You can't have a 747 made from quarks only. [Nitpicking.]
I'm guessing that this reply is to the EY's original post and is here by mistake.
In fact it is. But let it stay here.