Genuine human beings are also fiction from the point of view of quantum mechanics
Are you saying that you and Harry Potter are equally fictional? Or rainbows and kobolds? If not, what are you saying, when you say that they are all fictional? What observations were made, whereby quantum mechanics discovered this fictional nature, and what counterfactual observations would have implied the opposite?
Are you saying that you and Harry Potter are equally fictional?
Certainly not. I’m saying it’s useful for people to have symbols labelled “Stuart Armstrong” and “Harry Potter” (with very different properties—fictional being one), without needing either symbol defined in terms of quantum mechanics.
Something defined in terms of quantum mechanics can still fail to correspond....you’re still on the mail and therefore talking about issues orthogonal to grounding.
Are you saying that you and Harry Potter are equally fictional? Or rainbows and kobolds? If not, what are you saying, when you say that they are all fictional? What observations were made, whereby quantum mechanics discovered this fictional nature, and what counterfactual observations would have implied the opposite?
Certainly not. I’m saying it’s useful for people to have symbols labelled “Stuart Armstrong” and “Harry Potter” (with very different properties—fictional being one), without needing either symbol defined in terms of quantum mechanics.
Something defined in terms of quantum mechanics can still fail to correspond....you’re still on the mail and therefore talking about issues orthogonal to grounding.