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Authored by: PolR on Saturday, December 01 2012 @ 01:25 PM EST |
A few remarks.
The math algorithms were non patentable subject
matter and also prior art because the courts treat all math as prior art no
matter how novel it may be.
The Supreme Court has done that in
Flook but this practice is no longer followed.
A finger swipe and
a button operation cannot be signs in a computer program. They can only be
represented by signs.
A finger swipe can be a sign by itself when
it is used to mean something. If you swipe over marks on a touch screen for
purposes of meaning something depending on which marks you swipe over, this is a
sign. In semiotics this process is called se
miosis, it is the process of making meaning.
This details aside you seem
to have captured the gist of the argument.
As a last remark, I think of
semiotics as a social science and not as a philosophy. But I recognize that the
methods of semiotics are closer to philosophy than physical sciences. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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