Diet calories are an example of anti-reification: an abstraction made real via a non-abstraction. A measure of homeostasis shifts in a complex dissipative system that rhymes enough with a unit of literal energy to be approximated by it. Like using pulse rate to measure time.
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There’s lots of other examples of anti-reification. It’s a sort of scale-free mathematical metonymy. If I use notation “ar” for anti-reification: Pulse = ar(clock time) Body temperature =ar(98.4 degrees) CO2 level in atmosphere = ar(400ppm) and rising
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Basically, if you get mad about “calories are fake” you might be... a rationalist

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People who believe that counting calories works for weight loss tend to be better at losing weight than those who don't.
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Exactly
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