>>510284088Atoms, Democritus believed, are too small to be detected by the senses; they are infinite in number and come in infinitely many varieties, and they
have existed for ever. Against the Eleatics, he maintained that there was no contradiction in admitting a vacuum: there was a void, and in this infinite
empty space atoms were constantly in motion, just like motes in a sunbeam. They come in different forms: they may differ in shape (as the letter A differs
from the letter N), in order (as AN differs from NA), and in posture (as N differs from Z). Some of them are concave and some convex, and some are
like hooks and some are like eyes. In their ceaseless motion they bang into each other and join up with each other (KRS 583). The middle-sized objects
of everyday life are complexes of atoms thus united by random collisions, differing in kind on the basis of the differences between their constituent
atoms (Aristotle, Metaph. A 4. 9854-20; KRS 556).
Like Anaxagoras, Democritus believed in plural worlds.
Aristotle does have an argument against this but I dont want to shit the thread up any further, its about AGI, not the genealogy of our modern knowledge