(2024-12-23, 12:44 AM)Valmar Wrote: There is nothing more happening at a transistor level ~ it is still purely physical and chemical reactions.
What you don't seem to realize is that we humans create abstractions, and then build physical tools to support those abstractions.
In terms of physics and chemistry ~ there are no macro features. There are just micro features that we conscious entities mentally abstract away as "macro".
But doesn’t this micro/macro distinction depend on whether particles themselves are generated by fields?
As per the recent PBS Spacetime videos about what an electron is, if there is no corpuscle but “excitations” of a field…then isn’t the field fundamentally a macro object, possibly as extensive as the universe yet attenuated across distance?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
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