The dematerialisation of materialised (immaterial) information

Part of the materialised immaterial information discussed in paragraph 7 was dematerialised again, when the first book was copied. This was a moment of great importance for humanity. Somebody at that time saw some value in certain among all the written records created up to that time and selected them (a choice that haunted us until very recently, see paragraph 15) for copying—that they were copied verbatim is the key point here. (This was not the case for musical pieces or paintings, because copies of such works, however artful, cannot be exact, and are therefore new materialised immaterial information.) Such dematerialised information became an intangible Thing, a dataset separate from the (tangible) original book it (necessarily, see §01.01.17) came from (which of course remained a tangible, material Thing in its own right).

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