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by jcynix 29 days ago
> Your coffee mug isn't naturally brown and warm: it is a cloud of atoms made of 99.9999% empty space, with no color, no texture, and no intrinsic smell.

A tiger too is "just a cloud of atoms" but nevertheless I wouldn't like to share a room with it. The article sounds a bit like a variant of Solipsism.

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Recently re-watched Watchmen:

"A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles."

- Dr. Manhattan

(who almost entirely lost touch with humanity)