Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

On Mon, 31 May 2004 09:01:16 -0400, "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote:

>It has nothing to do with English versus Spanish. Trust me. It has to do
>with whether you think that only physical objects exist.

It has to do with whether you think that abstract objects have not physical properties.

>Data exists. There is a physical representation of that data on a CD, for
>example. That physical representation is just as real as the ink on paper
>is real, or the carvings on the rosetta stone are real.

But it is a physical representation of the data, not the data. It resembles me to the primitive people who thought that photographies steal the "soul" of the people :-)

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Mon May 31 2004 - 09:55:07 CDT