[Magnus] So, what you need to do is to explain how a computer can support intellectual patterns.
[Arlo] The same way a book can. Its a storage mechanism. [Magnus] I mean that a computer's ability to do that is analogous to a human's ability to do it, it's just the dynamic influence that is completely absent in a computer. [Arlo] I don't think its very analogous at all. One stores, the other generates. [Magnus] Then what about a computer? How is a computer able to support an intellectual pattern like a book, or a design specification for a new car? You can remove it from the internet, and it will support that book more or less forever. It will not decay. [Arlo] It most certainly will, just over a longer timeframe than you are seeing. [Magnus] Duration? Where is this duration mentioned in the MoQ? [Arlo] Its fairly evident that inorganic patterns are more persistent than biological patterns; a stone tablet will "outlive" a human brain, but both eventually decay. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
