> [Comment, sarcastically:] not facts [but] variations in magnetic flux
I disagree, you're conflating two different things here:
1. There's a difference between an answer N which was reached by a good/reliable f(x)=N process, versus the same answer reached by using a flawed/unreliable g(x)=N process.
2. There's a difference between the platonic information/concept versus how it happens to reach you via symbols and atoms and photons.
In other words, TFA is focused on how the result is reached, but your response concerns how a result is expressed.
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Imagine I took a pen and wrote down "3+4=", then I rolled dice (2d6) which totaled to 7, causing me to complete the equation as "3+4=7".
That's a (#1) problem, isn't it? While it happens to be textually "correct", the process is flawed in a way that taints the result. When you object that my process stinks because "you're just rolling dice", that's a good objection, rather than a "reductive non-sequitur."
Meanwhile, I doubt anybody is remotely worried about (#2) stuff, like how the equation would "just" be subjective sensations of electrical signals from reflected photons from ink molecules on cellulose.
I disagree, you're conflating two different things here:
1. There's a difference between an answer N which was reached by a good/reliable f(x)=N process, versus the same answer reached by using a flawed/unreliable g(x)=N process.
2. There's a difference between the platonic information/concept versus how it happens to reach you via symbols and atoms and photons.
In other words, TFA is focused on how the result is reached, but your response concerns how a result is expressed.
_______
Imagine I took a pen and wrote down "3+4=", then I rolled dice (2d6) which totaled to 7, causing me to complete the equation as "3+4=7".
That's a (#1) problem, isn't it? While it happens to be textually "correct", the process is flawed in a way that taints the result. When you object that my process stinks because "you're just rolling dice", that's a good objection, rather than a "reductive non-sequitur."
Meanwhile, I doubt anybody is remotely worried about (#2) stuff, like how the equation would "just" be subjective sensations of electrical signals from reflected photons from ink molecules on cellulose.