Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

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"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news: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 :-)
>

Why store and retrieve are *physical* properties ?

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