>>17050336
Because your subjective impression that things "look similar" says nothing about their function.

>>17050336
Because different things tend to have different purposes, but different things can be analogous on some level of abstraction - that's the whole point of abstraction. The entire pipeline from a physical phenomenon to phenomenological one stacks abstractions. That's why.

>>17050336
it could be the case that the physical processes that create them share similarities

>>17050336
because under them it's the same numbers, relations and patterns that governs them

Someone looks at the image like this and says, “The nerve cells in the brain look just like a cosmic web.” even though what they are comparing them to is the dark matter web. If we are inside a mind, why would we have to be something physical within that mind? Perhaps the baryonic matter that makes up 5% of the universe and exists mostly in the form of plasma is just as real as the thoughts within our minds.

>>17052206
>physical
who says we are physical