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You're all too far blending physical reality with metaphysical reality. The Dead Sea Scrolls (the paper, the ink, etc..) physically exist. However, since the very word knowledge connotes having been learned by someone, the knowledge they contained (likely) was not known by anyone. Metaphysically, they did not exist.
Likewise, the physical reality of this thread exists. It is contained on a hard drive, in the form of binary 0's and 1's. When it is updated, it continues to exist, but merely with more bits. In a metaphysical way, if you have no way of knowing that someone posted to it, it no lonhnger exists. Your mental representation (metaphysical) is no longer the correct representation of the physical object.
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"I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel
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