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Atomism wasn't correct though. Atoms aren't indivisible and they're not the smallest unit reality has.
"States of matter are made from the same materials, only vibrating at different rates."
Well yes, but they only identified one material correctly, water. And us being mostly made of it and our planet being quite blue, and water being water, quite obvious.
That's a common myth, but it's a misconception stemming from history and not anything any actual neuroscientist believes. We don't have 5 senses. We have like 10 to 20, they're still arguing about it. But here's the main six and theyre thresholds (ofc everyone knows these ones but the thresholds seem quite interesting, and believable, like in a "yeah I could do that" way)
And a bit of copypaste from Reddit where someone has nicely listed these...
So yeah I read some of your comment, I can see how those can be interesting metaphors when you're into that literature, buuut... that's about it.