Now you're getting it!
Because I don't need to be one 99% of the time. That doesn't mean we can't reduce things when we need to.
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This is like saying computers don't have transistors because 99% of the time I interface with them in terms of programs.
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More like your programs exist as things themselves and there are meaningful things you can do and say about them that can't be reduced to action on and behaviour of transistors because by moving transistors you have thrown away the language needed to say what you wanted to say
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Yes, and when we reduce it is in all but the most trivial cases partial, contextual, and contingent. Just because you can partially reduce things and this is frequently useful doesn't mean that all that there is is undifferentiated matter.
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If we knew of phenomena that couldn't be explained in terms of the few basic laws of physics (or, since physics is currently incomplete, if we had reason to believe such phenom will eventually be discovered), I would shrug and agree. But so far, it looks like everything conforms.
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