Re: [Patents] "Further technical effect"

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 21:35, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> Software is just another technology dealing with the manipulation of a
> physical object - information (that is, if you read the physics
> literature for the last ten years, you will see the growing incorporation
> of information into the fundamental theories of physics as a physical
> quantity).  Software then is a controlled way of using the forces of
> nature to manipulate and transform a physical quantity - information.

You're just confusing, the means that transport information with
information itself, your words are just non-sense.

> In that sense, the Nordic patent committee report of 1963 was just
> anticipating the understanding of information as being physical when
> they refer to the energy aspects of computer operations (since all
> information exchanges expend energies).

Even life expends energy, everything do, it's called entropy, and
there's nothing new in it!

> Spend a few months (or years) and wander throught the physics literature
> and learn something serious about the forces and quantities of nature.

Good advice, but you should also understand what you read when you do.

Simo.

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