Processing is material

Processing on datasets, because they are material, meaning they exist in the analogue and/or the digital world (see §01.00.02), is similarly material, meaning external and thus perceptible by human senses in the analogue or (indirectly) the digital world. As information can also be immaterial, processing of information (only for humans, from the Unique Human Observer Perspective) can also be immaterial, internal: the thoughts, feelings and wishes of humans are also the result of information processing. Nevertheless, the existence of such immaterial information, and consequently this type of processing, can only be established arbitrarily, that is, it can only be assumed either if anyone tells us so (‘I am thinking’) or, retrospectively, if it is followed by an action. In this way, however, this type of processing also becomes material, it becomes external.

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