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Mixing of Data Types

Each of these 16 data types rarely stand alone. When we look with our eyes we see types SE images, ES color, and type TS motion all at the same time. Our brain needs to understand the different data types because they come from different sensors. To us its all summed up in concept of seeing. When we pick up a golf ball we feel types MS, ME, ET even in a dark room. We almost never detect just one type of data at a given time. As we stroll down a street our brain is constantly processing huge amounts of data of many different types. The data all originate from the four elements of our universe: mass, energy, space, and time called MEST. Strolling down the street is strolling through MEST from the perspective of our senses as they input raw data to our brain so it can perform its usual task of data processing.

To understand all the data types you should try to witness each one individually for yourself. Each data type by itself is not enough to really find the truth about what you are experiencing. To find the truth about data you need to examine data in all four dimensions of MEST. If someone were to say to you "it is raining in Boston" how could you be sure that statement is true? If you were actually in the space of Boston you could go outside and feel the mass of rain coming down from the sky. If the mass is water then indeed it is raining. But if the mass is ice, it's not really raining, it's actually snowing. If the energy in the atmosphere is too low, rain can't happen. If when you walked outside you felt no mass falling from the sky but the ground was wet you would know that it had been raining in some past time. So now you have analyzed the statement for truth in four dimensions of MEST.




Last Update: 2006-Dec-23