Our brain has the capacity to model what it considers to be real. We experience these models as reality. By convincing someone that God is real and omniscient and omnipotent, you implement a process on their brain that has full read/write access on their personal reality.
Because of mathematics. The structure of mathematics is so unrelenting that not even God can change it. On the other hand, we cannot experience our actual mathematical models of physical reality.
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Are abstract entities Real scientifically speaking ( rationally)?
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I don't think that platonism works. I think that only implementations can be real. We cannot observe the actual implementation of the universe however, but we can show that we can describe it as transitions between states of information. Our models are formed about information.
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