Luciano Floridi

So if you just grab a piece of sheet metal and you make it into a cylinder and you try to make a cannon out of that, the moment exactly that you shoot the cannon, that's going to open up like a flower in a cartoon, you know, like a Looney Tunes type of situation.

So what they would do is they would make these solid cylinders of metal and they would bore a hole in it to create the cannons.

And boring those holes released an enormous amount of heat.

So Joel thought, well...

how come all of that heat is there?

It's like an infinite amount of heat.

If I continue to bore a hole in a piece of metal for an infinite amount of time, it cannot be a thing then.

And that leads him to realize that temperature

It's actually something that has to live in things, but it's not a thing itself.

It's related to the kinetic energy of the particles in the thing, but it's not a thing itself.

It doesn't have its own particle.

It isn't kind of like a temperature particle.

Temperature is kind of like a property that matter has, and that holds onto things.

Knowledge is similar.

You know, in that it holds on to you and to me, you know, and to the collective to exist.

But it doesn't have kind of like a physicality in itself.

But it always exists in some sort of physical medium or substrate.

So in that sense, it's always going to be physical.

No matter how virtual it gets, it has maybe a different type of physicality.

But even electromagnetic waves that are transmitting, you know, data from your Wi-Fi router to your laptop are technically a physical embodiment.