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• Post #3382012

  This is the correct answer. It seems like matter and energy exist regardless of our attentions but the rest comes down to ontology. What is a thing? How does it come into being? How does it cease to be? Next, ask yourself “do things need to be made of matter and/or energy to exist?” What about Mickey Mouse? Then you move on to questions like “does a piece of art exist if nobody has ever witnessed it?” And finally, the psychiatric ward. 😜

• Post #907140

  Down, boy.

• Post #34657

  Almost correct, except that the patterns it works with are on the byte level. Not all files contain text, after all.