>>14202621>There are no chairs, they're just the universe chairing!This to me is as lame as the Neil DeGrase Tyson "We are all made of star stuff" quip.
Towards the end of the video, VSauce seems very fixated on the idea that whatever answer he personally comes to regarding the existence of chairs must absolutely defeat and preclude any potential paradox. I disagree with that. For one thing, to me that's like being afraid of word games or something. But I get that paradoxes, or "proof by contradiction" is a very important tool in mathematics and applied fields like theoretical physics. And yes, the universe is material. But the /experience/ of life is not. I'm shocked that when he gets to the idea of the atoms in his body "Michael-ing", he doesn't talk anything at all about consciousness, which is pretty much the simplest go-to example of something that many argue is not material.
But again, I don't even want to go into the mud with him there, because I don't think it matters that people can make up paradoxes if compositions exist as objects. There are unsolvable paradoxes to consciousness (such as the surprised death row inmae), yet consciousness self-evidently exists.
