RE: Why materialists are predominantly materialists
September 29, 2016 at 9:14 am
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2016 at 9:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 29, 2016 at 8:03 am)bennyboy Wrote: -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.I'm not sure what you man by any of this. In what sense are these ideas, and in what sense are they being imposed on windows?
Quote:Not in any accurate technical sense. Again, those are related things, not an mp3file. Feel free to use your sense as you wish, for the convenience of your continued insistence...but I don't see any value in it. I can see, easily, how such a sense would lead to unfortunate logical missteps. I'm not the big bang, even if the big bang had to happen for me to exist. Back to the drawing board bud.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.
Quote:Strange for you, of all people, to argue against that point, methinks...............?
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