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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linguistic conventions & equations work when the world we experience responds the way they led us to expect
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modulo scope of "we" and "us." Gravity works as expected everywhere. Specific egregores don't.
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btw, sophomoric q, neat a: will gravity still work as expected if yr not on this planet but don't know it?
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