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Originally Posted by Baron Mynd
lmao how the fuck is a chair at the end of the universe no longer a chair, tho?
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It's a philosophical discussion/question that has a few variants. The basic question is as follows - imagine if you hypothetically traveled to the end of the universe and found an object there that looked exactly like a chair; is it a chair?
The answer is no. Although perfectly identical to a chair made for humans on earth, we must assume the object we find at the end of the universe is a cluster of space material constructed by sheer chance to replicate the structure of a chair - the reason people would think otherwise has to do with Pareidolia and how humans brains associate objects with meaning. In the case of the object, it has no meaning or purpose because it wasn't pre-designed for being sat on, despite its overwhelming and brute appearance as that of a chair (complete with 4 legs, a seat, a back and armrests).