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by verisimi
935 days ago
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You lost me at "nuclear and chemical bonds". I can see birds, dogs. They really are there. You can point at them, touch them, What you are talking about is abstractions. You can choose not to distinguish dogs and birds - that's fine, and you can choose to pretend countries are of the same type. Most people do. All the best. |
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One can hallucinate all manner of things.
When you see a bird, you're perceiving neurochemical impulses produced by photochemical interactions triggered by photons absorbed and emitted by a series of atoms between you and the surface of the bird, itself stimulated by a similar cascade likely originating in a nuclear reaction that happened a hundred thousand years ago in the core of the Sun. (Also, we're playing fast and loose by referring to the surface of the bird as a singular plane, but we can't go full Cartesian because it's a Friday night.)