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* Kaz Kylheku
| Okay, but they are real in a way that is different from ``any other
| object being traded''.  They are real in the same sense that the integers
| are real.  There is only one 42; new utterances of 42 don't give rise to
| a new integer.

  This is convenient mythology for some political and ideological ends, but
  it is bogus all the way through.  There is _nothing_ in the creation and
  duplication of bits that differs one hoot from creation and duplication
  of any other kind of object.  Think about it, please.

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