That stement in and of itself is the core of why software shouldn't be
patentable.
You can concisely describe an apple, there is no "sort
of".
But when dealing with abstract concepts - the ideas that patent law
is not supposed to protect - "sorf of" is quite frequently used.
To
describe it concisely so everyone understands it is not possible. It's not
possible because language (another abstract concept) is a poor tool to use to
describe the conceptual thoughts in another persons mind. Two people with even
identical backgrounds and experiences can easily understand a description
differently to each other simply because of where their minds were focused in
that moment of description.
Even "bits" is nothing more then "yet another
label" attached to represent a physical binary value.
the magnetic field is
present or it's not
the electric flow is present or it's
not
the plastic is etched or it's not
They're just labels -
abstract concepts to give to a binary physical object storing "something" that
we interpret as information.
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