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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

But the software is stored on physical drives as ones and zeroes? What's the difference compared to printing it on paper? It's a different representation of it, on a different physical medium. But physical all the same.

What are the rules, here? What's your personal definition of physical that I don't know about?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The difference is that they are stored magneticly/electronicly on a drive, that means that it is just a change of property of a physical material that change, not any addition of material as ink or toner

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So there's an addition of charge? Physical addition/change!

I just feel like you're nitpicking this in absurdum. That's my honest take. ✋

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well, isn't it a point of philisophy to nitpick and explore conceptual differences?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Alright, I feel like we've done that now. 👍