There are patterns that exist in reality where we see “hands,” and these patterns have something in common, but they are not fundamental. If I really had no hands—if reality suddenly transitioned to be in a state that we would describe as “Eliezer has no hands”—reality would shortly thereafter correspond to a state we would describe as “Eliezer screams as blood jets out of his wrist stumps.” And this is true, even though the above paragraph hasn’t specified any quark positions.
