First, yeah, the worms are artificial,
as are all human concepts. If you notice the way I phrased my comment - "...that any human can
know "truth"" (emphasis added) - it was aimed in a very particular manner based on, yes, artificial constructions
. If I wanted to be really technical about it, I would have written "know and intelligeably communicate", but "know" is the short hand reference.
Basically, they highlight one of the quintessential problems with all human systems of communication, which is that we build these systems using fuzzy sets since it is actually impossible (or has been to date), to build an exact, non-fuzzy, symbol system that accurately reflects our experiences in reality and allows us to precisely communicate them to others.
If a man smokes by himself, is he really smoking?
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