>>13718897What delusion?
Saying that physical structures are unique is delusion?
>>13718915>Is it a special case plea anon?No. Claiming that a combination of oxygen and hydrogen will not produce the same properties as carbon and nitrogen is not special pleading; It's chemistry.
There is no correlation between what you perceive to be a simulation of a connectome of a mouse, and an actual mouse. You are projecting your own idea on these two completely different physical systems and arguing they are the same, because you are deluded into platonism and thinking that computation is real.
I am arguing that what is going on in any system is a set of physical reactions that are unique to the materials that compose them. I.e. that chemistry is real.
Your argument is that computation and math are more fundamental than chemistry and physics. You are arguing for computational realism.
According to you, there is nothing different between using the side of a coin to represent a bit of information vs. using a light switch vs. using the electron orbitals of an atom vs. using a silicon transistor etc.
That's fucking nonsense. The only "connection" these systems have is that we humans have decided on a pre-defined language to use them to perform math, that we have made up. It isn't actually real and there is no connection between these systems as things-in-themselves.
You are being a Platonist. You also argue with memes. There is no such thing as "special pleading". Saying different physical systems composed of different atoms are not equivalent or isomorphic to each other, and thus we should NOT expect them to have the same properties, is not special pleading.
