Thank you for the work, I've read a couple of chapters and skimmed through a couple more, I will return to continue it as it has many interesting concepts. Som

Thank you for the work, I've read a couple of chapters and skimmed through a couple more, I will return to continue it as it has many interesting concepts. Some distinctions about Data which are not mentioned (or which escaped my skimming) are: Data is physical (not ephemeral, like information). Every bit of data can be mapped to a point in 3D space where it is ‘stored’ on some piece of matter (tape, disk, flash memory). In other words, data has location in space, it can be weighted. Encoding information as data actually means altering matter (the storage medium - piece of paper, disk tape, CD, RAM) in a way in which we can later infer data by examining the state of the physical storage medium. And Data is in time It has a T0. Every single bit of data that exists ‘appeared’ in space (on storage) at a precise moment in time. Every bit flip in the stored data has a point in time, so we can derive a 'history' time axis for data. Data has an implicit refcount - the number of physical storage mediums where it is encoded. Data is lost when the last medium is damaged. Just planting some seeds in case someone finds these distinctions useful.