Jesus, this crushed my beliefs. Philosophers arguing about "identity" are just arguing about a knack of the human perception of the world. There is no such thing as a thing.

Additionally, his answer to "But how can seeing a false reality be beneficial to an organism’s survival?" makes me think. Entire complexes can be completely meaningless to another. A piece of data, an arrangement of bits, is just that. An arrangement of bits. It is only something to us. It is something to me, and it is something else to you.