Data reside in computers. Not in your brain. Your knowledge is a simulation of the world.
Data can be stored in both our knowledge and primarily emotions. For example: Imagine you get burned by touching a hot pot. After suffering the wound of burning yourself, you create a special data of not doing again.
This can be related to the basic principles of empiricism — javi2541997
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