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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT face="Times New Roman">><BR>> [SLB writes]
Actually, only if you don't consider the writing on the <BR>> readers to be
like writing on water ? here one moment, gone the next.<BR>><BR>RYS
responded:<BR>> The screen does not keep what you wrote on it in any way,
shape or form. <BR>> That is how all screens function ? you can write the
whole Bible on a <BR>> screen by "scrolling" down one screen at a time, but
in fact it is inside <BR>> the memory, and not on the screen.<BR><BR><BR>CM
comments:<BR><BR>I think the analogy to writing on water by R'SLB is a poor
analogy because <BR>of a critical difference. The image on water will degrade
and self-destruct <BR>on its own without any active mechika by the person, so it
makes sense that <BR>it would not be considered a viable image to which mechika
applies. However <BR>the image on your computer monitor will remain in place
until a person <BR>actively is involved in its mechika (I do not think the
refresh cycle of the <BR>computer screen makes it any less permanent as the
image persists in the <BR>phosphors (crt) or lcd and is seen as a persistent,
continuous image by the <BR>eye).<BR><BR>OTOH, the response by RYS is equally
problematic to me. I do not think that <BR>the permanence of the (sequential)
bits in RAM will turn this into an image <BR>to which mechika can apply. These
bits do not for form an image, nor is the <BR>physical location of these bits on
the RAM relevant to forming the image as <BR>would be the case for pixels on a
screen or bits of ink on a page, nor are <BR>they themselves visible. They are
merely part of the sequential instructions <BR>as to which pixels on the screen
are turned on. The bits in RAM are merely <BR>instrumental in forming the image
on the screen, but not an image <BR>themselves.<BR><BR>Kol Tuv<BR><BR>Chaim
Manaster<BR> <BR><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>