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by calf 655 days ago
How does something not physical give rise to physical properties? Saying that way makes it sounds like a logical conceit is being used.
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It organises stuff instead of being stuff.

Which is less of a logical conceit, and more metaphysics.

No one knows what quantum fields are made of. There are various ideas (loop quantum gravity, causal dynamical triangulation, others...) but QFT defines what quantum fields do, not what their component parts are at a more fundamental level.