From epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk  Wed Oct 18 12:42:40 2000
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:42:40 +0100 (BST)
From: Edward Avis epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk
Subject: [Patents] Re: Technical effect

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 patents-request@liberte.aful.org wrote:

>From: Steve Probert <steve.probert@patent.gov.uk>

>>Following your reasoning the compress algorithms could (in theory) also be
>>reproduced by mental acts, 
>
>I disagree.  I've been thinking hard about the data on my hard drive,
>but I simply cannot make it shrink by just thinking about it.  
>Therefore, it is not a mental act.

You can think hard about a text file on your disk, and not correct the
spelling errors just by thinking about it.

-- 
Ed Avis
epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk





