What I mean is that somewhere in the computer's memory there is a pattern of electrical currents that correspond to the number 7.
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However most of the time while programming I'm not thinking of the numbers in my variables in terms of their bit patterns, never mind their electrical patterns. Most of the time I might as well think of them actually existing as physical numbers.
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In fact when I started learning to program I had no idea how computers represent numbers. However my ignorance about what the numbers in my variables actually were didn't really hamper my ability to use them.
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After I learned the binary representation of numbers I started to sometimes make use of that knowledge. As far as I remember I never made use of my knowledge of the electrical representation of numbers.
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As far as my skill as a software developer is concerned I might as well believe that _bits_ physically exist in the computers memory.
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Isn't that remarkable that I could be this wrong about a fundamental part of the stuff I'm working with and it wouldn't make any difference?
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Now consider "Demons don't physically exist, they're a virtual construct we use to make many things tractable. When I say that someone is possessed I don't mean that somewhere in their brain there is a physical demon. That would be impossible and therefore a silly claim"
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Of course the people who came up with bits didn't believe in their physical existence while the people who came up with demons did so.
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However if computers had naturally hanged out in the environment since before the stone age people would have gone numbers physically exist in computers -> numbers are represented as bits which physically exist in computers -> bits are represented as electrical currents
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While this process would have happened as people learned more about computers most of the knowledge about how to deal with these entities would not have been invalidated.
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I therefore see the best way to honor beliefs about supernatural entities to not treat them as claims about things which physically exist but as claims about things which are physically represented.
Čini se da učitavanje traje već neko vrijeme.
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