It is as obvious as hell to me, Lighter, but it seems someone upthread was quite sure a datam was its own substance, strange as that may sound.

Ed, let me rephrase: the datum is a generated facsimile of some aspect of some universe. For the datum to exist it must be generated and perceived.

OF course it is also possible for an individual to hold data in his mind he has generated and is no longer wiling to perceive, but that's another can o'worms altogether.


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