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==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :There's this concept in philosophy called a "heap problem." :You have one of something. It's not a heap. You add another. It's still not a heap. If you have ten thousand it's certainly a heap. So, at what point do you go from a non-heap to a heap? :Pfft. A heap is just a human concept. We ose it for intellectual book-keeping because we have limited cognitive capacity but, there is no heap just larger amounts of stuff. :It's only a problem" to the extent that we're upset by the fact that a heap isn't real. Not like a proton is real, anyway. :We live in aristotles world of stuff. But, we'd like to live in plato's world of ideas. :But, in a far off galaxy, you will find protons, you will find the same stuff. But, heaps are just an idea in the minds :Of limited organisms. :What about mountains or warmth or the color red or love or consciousness? They're some of my favorite things. They're real to me. :It's not the universe's fault if your favorites arent well-aligned :With the nature of reality. :Well, what's your favorite thing? :Quark-gluon interactions. :Caption: smbc-comics.com
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