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 human can have a concept of a perch though they have no talons to grip it, or a thermal though they have no wings to ride it.
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Yes, and the alien would likely soon come to understand chairs after watching humans use them a few times.
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And that alien would simply not know about chairs, rather than some awkward notion of the chair existing for us and not for them. "The atomness of atoms exists in the mind of the person" "the x-ness of the fundamental building block of the universe exists in the mind..."
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This implies there is no substance in the world (no x-ness for any x), only undifferentiated matter of which nothing objective can be said.
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