(September 29, 2016 at 6:00 am)Rhythm Wrote: No, you couldn't say that -and- be right...you'd have to pick one or the other, lol. What idea is imposed onto windows, in your estimation?-the idea of windows as viewing areas, being imposed from outside the mechanism of the computer. The idea of a pointing device, the idea of folders, of files, of text.
Quote:MP3 is a digital compression algorithm. A computational function. Computational functions violate the seperation you insist on, their structure -being- their function, and so provide a counter-factual example of what you propose. An mp3 file -is not- a representation of complex interactions between scientific knowledge, the way we experience sound, and ideas about how to encode sounds. It's a format to store data. Your description is linguistic flourish, a mismash of things related to but -not- an mp3.The .mp3 file IS all of those things, in the sense that all those things were required for the existence either of the file format or the specific media on which it is encoded.
Strange for you, of all people, to argue against that point, methinks.
