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On 18 Apr 2001, at 13:35, Vincent Campbell wrote:
> <And don't we mean, when we say 'digital computing', a _binary_
> process,
> > rather than just being related to digits, and when we say 'analog
> > computing' don't we mean a representational process?>
> >
> I've kept quite on this one, coz JR's point didn't sound right but I
> didn't have the terminology to address the question. But this
> sentence from Wade gets to what I was thinking (albeit in a much
> clearer way than I'd been thinking about it).
>
Also, although we may indeed live in a scientifically verifiable
quantum microphysical world where there are such things as
smallest possible discrete distances (say, the radius of an
electron), in the world in which we typically and primordially live,
that is, in the experiential, phenomenological macro realm unaided
by perceptual range augmenting technology, our perceptual
experience is irretrieveably analog, as is our manipulation of and
extrapolation from a slide rule.
>
> Vincent
>
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