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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

abstracted from

Can "abstracted from" mean "produced from" in the following context?

Context:

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
  

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More like "extracted from". "... " does not read correctly to me (though I don't think this directly affects your question).

— GPY

  • More like "extracted from".
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  • " does not read correctly to me (though I don't think this directly affects your question).
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More like "extracted from".

"... from banks of every computer ..." does not read correctly to me (though I don't think this directly affects your question).
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Does "human system" regard to human sociology or human anatomy?
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red appleDoes "human system" regard to human sociology or human anatomy?
I am not entirely sure what "human system" means. It may mean "human society". I don't see how it can refer to anatomy.

The whole passage is pretty cryptic.
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GPY"... from banks of every computer ..." does not read correctly to me (though I don't think this directly affects your question).
The text I found online has "data abstracted from the banks of every computer". This makes sense if "banks" is interpreted to mean "memory banks".
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