Repeat after me ten times: “Whether or not the laws of the universe are reductionist has no bearing on how I assign meaning to events and objects.”
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A mind that lives on the substrate of organic molecules can be the same mind as one that lives on a substrate of silicon or a mind that lives in a universe with different physics. The atoms are not an essential property of the mind.
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Just as how the chairness of a chair has nothing to do with the specific particular materials that chair is made of, only general requirements for the materials.
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