The use of the unqualified word "human" almost always means "people like me."
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"Physics is all there is."
"What's physics?"
"Oh you know, all the stuff there is."
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btw to get object level for a sec: egregores are a good example of a plausibly non-physical entity
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Yup, it's linguistic convention turtles all the way down.
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eh, for my $ "existence is not a predicate" is the tried & true principled way to sidestep the whole issue
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sidestep perhaps. Tried, true and principled is a case of YMMV :D
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