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Hey, howya doin'?!
I'm fine. But I understand notions I've come to believe - if not cherish - could look like outright insanity to any who haven't done the same prep work/study.
I mean, if a non-musician knew nothing about piano playing, what must a pianist in action look like to them? Perhaps even a seizure in the more involved passages? And yet as they learn more and more about it - especially in the doing of it - at some point it all seems perfectly natural.
But I'll take that bouron anyway. Thanks!
Back to the topic of copyright, you are right, it doesn't exist.
Copyright: yet another emergent property of
Copyright is not an emergent promerty, that's why it doesn't exist. Somebody made that up and other people use it to enforce an artificial market. Maybe the artificial market is an emergent property of this dumb idea of copyright, and piracy is another emergent property. So is the case with other funny words, for example democracy. Democracy does not exist, it is not an emergent property, though it should be, in that case it would exist. It is just a word that people use to mean, well, a different thing each time, maybe the institutions that emerge from it are real.
Ultimately none of the abstractions we hold in our head about things that we perceive as reality are real, if all that is real is the atomic interactions between them, but I'm suspecting even those atomic interactions are not real, indeed they are less real as they are abstractions of our minds, which are themselves just emergent properties of neural synapses, which are just an idea that we abstract in our brains and....
*proceeds to eat his own tail*