Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40bb61cd$0$65124$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> x wrote:
> > Alfredo Novoa wrote:
> >>Laconic2 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 ?
>
> ?
> Can you please spare me guessing what you mean by rephrasing?
>
Alfredo said "It has to do with whether you think that abstract objects have not physical properties."
I thougt he meant data cannot be stored or retrieved because it has not physical properties.

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