> the question, at least the way it's phrased here, doesn't say anything about any air
Nor does it mention water, but blueberries contain water. Likewise, the paper finds "the air content of the berries" to be "211 times the mass of Earth’s atmosphere" [1].
> Supposing that the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries, what would happen from the perspective of a person on the surface?
Closely packed but uncompressed means you're going to have air between some bits of them.
Nor does it mention water, but blueberries contain water. Likewise, the paper finds "the air content of the berries" to be "211 times the mass of Earth’s atmosphere" [1].
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.10553.pdf page 3