If you had to create a modern 5 category exhaustive folksonomy of ALL materials, like the earth-fire-water-wind-ether of the alchemists, what would your 5 base classes be? Should cover all familiar modern materials.
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Huh people really don’t think about actual materials anymore. I was hoping for stuff like: metals, concrete, plastics, ceramics, biologicals
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Well, I was starting off with solid, liquid, gas ... plasma(?), empty space(??). OK, I can't get to 5 and keep it folks(onom)y, but the first three seem like pretty commonsense categories even though also science-y.
Unlike the alchemists by 'materials' do you assume solid?
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Not sure I believe it but the five modern elemental forces:
Labor
Economics
Memes
Organic matter
Inorganic matter
Eh maybe
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Animal / Vegetable / Mineral / Device / Data
Anything mineral with a processor is now a Device
Data includes software, content, IP, etc.
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