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Suppose there were a fictional metaphysics wherein reality is governed by universal laws that are essentially fabrics composed of threads. Space, time, fate, life, matter, and other things all have their own distinct fabrics, and objects in the physical world are essentially knots of these threads from different fabrics.
A rock, for example, would be a collection of particles wherein each particle has space threads (to determine where it is), time threads (to determine when it is), and matter threads (to designate that there are particles at all) at a minimum.
The existence of rocks can be erased by “unraveling” the threads that make up their “knot”, erasing the matter composing the rock and erasing the time and space that they formerly occupied without destroying the threads that used to govern the rock, as the language “unravel” implies that the threads were only altered in terms of orientation rather than cut or destroyed.
I think it’s fairly clear that there’s type 2 information within these threads that’s encoded within their orientation, but my main question is whether these fabrics, as identity-bearing structures that govern reality, would qualify as Type 1 Concepts given that the threads that compose them don’t seem to disappear upon erasing the object that was participating in them.
A rock, for example, would be a collection of particles wherein each particle has space threads (to determine where it is), time threads (to determine when it is), and matter threads (to designate that there are particles at all) at a minimum.
The existence of rocks can be erased by “unraveling” the threads that make up their “knot”, erasing the matter composing the rock and erasing the time and space that they formerly occupied without destroying the threads that used to govern the rock, as the language “unravel” implies that the threads were only altered in terms of orientation rather than cut or destroyed.
I think it’s fairly clear that there’s type 2 information within these threads that’s encoded within their orientation, but my main question is whether these fabrics, as identity-bearing structures that govern reality, would qualify as Type 1 Concepts given that the threads that compose them don’t seem to disappear upon erasing the object that was participating in them.
