Re: [Patents] Re: Re: You have rights.. Software Patents are Illegal

[Erik Josefsson <ehj@cleosan.com>]

Flemming Bjerke wrote:

> > Let me put it this way: Since you believe "information is material", 
>
> Well, it was not exactly what I said. I said that information in a computer is 
> purely material/physical.

Right. You said that "in a computer, there is nothing but matter."

"Nothing but matter" is, as Popper pointed out, occult ever since 
Newton, so your assertion does not add much explanatory power. And what 
would be the difference between something that is "purely material" and 
something that is just "material"?

Or pure software patents and software patents?

> you can't conclude from an ontology of mind and matter that software should 
> not be patentable.

That statement is either dogma or not true.

> > To me, information objects are just as real as physical objects while I
> > believe my mind contimously creates images of them. 
>
> That is hardly a belief. Rather, it is an experience. (Although I would phrase 
> it a bit differently.)

I believe I am blind. I experience I see.

But you did not comment on the existence of "information objects", which 
was the main issue.

//Erik