Yeah, I should have been much more careful before throwing around words like “real”. See the long comment I just posted for more clarification, and in particular this paragraph:
I’m not trying to argue that concepts which we can’t formalise “aren’t real”, but rather that some concepts become incoherent when extrapolated a long way, and this tends to occur primarily for concepts which we can’t formalise, and that it’s those incoherent extrapolations which “aren’t real” (I agree that this was quite unclear in the original post).
Yeah, I should have been much more careful before throwing around words like “real”. See the long comment I just posted for more clarification, and in particular this paragraph: