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[–] WayTooDank 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The people in the picture are not pictures. It's not a picture of pictures. The fact that the picture is not real does not make its subject not real. In fact, because the picture is a simplification, the picture could apply to any number of real people

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Technically they are lights emitted by your computer screen that make up a picture that represent people that do not exist.

Even more technically they are electrical impulses perceived by your brain due to light signals interpreted by your eyes.

[–] Viking_Hippie 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The reverse ceci n'est pas un pipe argument? Nice!