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by naasking 1346 days ago
> Consider an alien which subsists on photons, which is a form of life that exists today.

Plants don't just subsist on photons, there are many other ingredients.

> We know from heseinberg that the sensing of this food "here" or "there" is nonphysical.

I don't know what this means. How do you "non-physically" sense photons?

> Rather it is the concept of objects remaining in a single place that would require some real mathematical innovation to a creature with no experience of such an idea. And so this distinction of entirely separate logical states, far from being basic or inescapable, is our very human invention.

Assuming you're talking about some alien made of bosons that aren't subject to the Pauli exclusion principle, you'll note that bosons still interact with fermions in which that principle does apply, so I don't think your argument follows. I admit I don't really understand your premises though so I have no idea what you really meant.