How can we make sense of this? — apeiron
How can we make sense of this? It seems more intuitive to that you might find yourself being a single thing, one of the many smallest possible things in the world, or maybe the totality of everything, with everything ultimately being one, the separateness of its components being something of an illusion. But to draw some boundary around a particular pair of particles seems rather arbitrary and strange. If two, why not more and why not less? And it introduces something extra into the world of particles: the boundary. — apeiron
When we think of a brain as a single thing while imagining that we are the brain, we overlook a problem: the brain is not a single thing; rather, it is a collection of many neurons, or if you want to go further still, many, many particles. — apeiron
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