Re: database systems and organizational intelligence
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 14:55:07 GMT
Message-ID: <40bb3e5a.5799569_at_news-read3.maxwell.syr.edu>
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 - 16:55:07 CEST