The problem here seems to be a deliberate conflation of “logically equivalent claims” (which are two sets of claims entailing precisely the same set of statements entirely independently of whether those statements are a good or even testable model for a physical pheonomenon) and “physically equivalent states” (which are two ostensibly different states which are the same at every level of examination), or a deliberate conflation of the model of a phenomenon with the phenomenon itself. This conflation is, in either case, completely solipsistic, and arguing with solipsists is futile.
I’ll leave the two of you to congratulate yourselves on being both brains in vats and not brains in vats at the same time.
The problem here seems to be a deliberate conflation of “logically equivalent claims” (which are two sets of claims entailing precisely the same set of statements entirely independently of whether those statements are a good or even testable model for a physical pheonomenon) and “physically equivalent states” (which are two ostensibly different states which are the same at every level of examination), or a deliberate conflation of the model of a phenomenon with the phenomenon itself. This conflation is, in either case, completely solipsistic, and arguing with solipsists is futile.
I’ll leave the two of you to congratulate yourselves on being both brains in vats and not brains in vats at the same time.