Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA13363 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:11:58 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:21:33 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: AC/DC Message-ID: <20010419092133.D715@ii01.org> References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745DAF@inchna.stir.ac.uk> <3ADDA0E1.25952.232A0A@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <3ADDA0E1.25952.232A0A@localhost>; from joedees@bellsouth.net on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:12:49PM -0500 From: Robin Faichney <robin@ii01.org> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:12:49PM -0500, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> 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.
Similarly, in the real world, there are concrete and highly significant
differences between analog and digital computing. The contrary suggestion
is a useless hypothesis.
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