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Science has come to treat its formal systems as more real than the experience they were abstracted from: 60 degrees as more real than hot and cold.

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  1. Adam Frank

    Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester

    And then we end up at the bottom of that with this idea of everyday I wake up and I check my phone and I'm like, oh, it's going to be 60 degrees out. Great. And we start thinking that 60 degrees is more real than hot and cold. That thermodynamics, the whole formal structure of thermodynamics is more real than the basic experience of hot and cold that it came from.

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