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Lesson 3: Being Objective About Functional Things
Published 2 months ago
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Nobody has ever seen an electron. We grant it existence because our best models require it — and those models survive every test we put them to.
The immune system earns existence by exactly the same standard. Same method. Same logic. Same rigor.
So why has science treated one as real and the other as a convenient shorthand?
Lesson 3: Being Objective About Functional Things is live. It makes the case that functional entities have exactly the same claim to scientific reality as physical ones — and that a science treating only one of them seriously is working with half its tools.
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