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by ufocia 28 days ago
When "shifting from Newtonian to relativistic contexts [while] reality" does not stay the same. While the op has many shortcomings, this post itself falls into the binary trap. You conclude without proof and contrary to currently accepted models, e.g. Schrodinger's uncertainty principle, that objective/Platonic reality exists.

I agree with you that you can approximate continuous/analog systems with discrete/binary ones, but those approximations (almost) always have some loss of accuracy, assuming, arguendo, that accuracy even exists. For most purposes these "tolerances", if you will, are acceptable and even desirable. Thus the op also falls into the binary trap suggesting that the only right way to do things is the op's way.

The quasi-political rant at the end does feel misplaced. While I see the op's general point, e.g. political polarization, the introduction/switch into the topic feels at least jarring.

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I you don’t believe on objective reality, who are you posting to??