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Charged particles

Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 06 2013 @ 07:19 PM EST

The new machine consists of the parts of the old machine plus the charges introduced into memory cells.
This is analogous to patenting a charged battery separately from a discharged battery. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to evaluate for themselves whether this makes sense.

The analogy is a poor one as memory isn't a battery. And it produces absurd results. It would be the same as claiming that an engine to power an automobile is no different than having a steel ingot under the hood. Pointing out that charged particles participate in the creation of a new machine shows that there is a material change or addition to an existing machine to form a new one. But obviously the configuration of these charges is also important to the function of the machine, just as a pattern of wires between the parts in a circuit is important. Two electrical devices may contain the same components, but the arrangement of their wires can create two very different circuits.

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Charged particles - Authored by: dio gratia on Sunday, January 06 2013 @ 08:19 PM EST

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