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Originally posted by SeaFox
But I think the hard disk copy would constitute a physical copy, too. It's a static storage medium after all. Computer goes off, it's still there.

Even when it's in RAM it's a physical copy. The particles and electricity exist in this physical universe. It's not, metaphysically speaking, beyond the physical like an idea in your brain.
 
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