humanities.philosophy.objectivism

In article @e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, davids@webmaster.com says...
>
> This is a model of the Universe that results from consciousness, much
> like indivisible atoms or particles with precise positions. While
> there are still whatever the concept indivisible atoms referred to
> even without consciousnesses to model them that way, but they are not
> indivisible anymore. The indivisibility was a property of the model,
> not the thing modeled.

The indivisibility aspect was a hypothesis that was falsified. It
happens. There is just no problem here. People make mistakes. And
this is not particularly a matter of consciousness, either. Animals
make mistakes, too.

Or is the problem how a false model can nevertheless make useful
predictions?

> The size of the Sun is a property of the model. It has a size only
> because we have a rule for what is and isn't part of it. Absent such a
> model, the concept of 'size' doesn't apply.
>
> Just as absent consciousness, the concept of precise position probably
> doesn't apply either.

You never answered my question whether software only exists while it is
running on hardware.

--
Gordon