SUO: RE: Physical and Abstract (was Lifecycle Integration Schema
John,
You wrote:
> Besides not being physical (i.e., having negative
> answers to the above questions), abstract entities
> have affirmative answers to the following questions:
>
> 1. Can it have physical replicas, embodiments,
> instances, encodings, or whatever similar
> term you would prefer to use?
>
> 2. If you are given a physical replica of an abstraction
> at one place and time, can you transmit it (the
> abstraction, not the replica) at the speed of light
> to another place and time where another physical
> replica, sufficiently similar to the original by
> whatever criteria you choose, can be reconstructed?
The second criteria seems incorrectly worded, since only physical things
(i.e. photons) can be transmitted at the speed of light from one place to
another.
Phil Jackson