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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: The size of electrons, and Fanciful misc SAGA
- Message-ID: <Nov.9.19.04.12.1992.11330@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 00:04:13 GMT
- References: <Nov.5.18.26.40.1992.16405@ruhets.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov6.142004.9208@prim> <1992Nov7.214329.24552@galois.mit.edu> <1992Nov8.154955.15938@prim>
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- dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes:
- >After a while, the implications of working with zeros and ones just start
- >to sink in. The digitization of life has been proceeding so gradually that
- >maybe you don't realize what a revolution we are going through. Music is now
- >nearly all digital and most of us can't tell the difference. Occams razor
- >might suggest that there are _no_ continuums out there. We can get by OK
- >without 'em.
- >Now you might argue that computers are just a tool, no big deal. But
- >I would say that technology leading to digitization is no coincidence,
- >rather the digitization of life _reflects_ the underlying nature of reality.
-
- "Very interesting, but stupid."
-
- Uh, do you have digital speakers? Mine are still on order :-)
- This is like saying that books are binary, because you can store
- them in ASCII format. On some technical level it's true, but it
- also doesn't mean anything. Why is it that some computer scientists
- tend to see the world as a device for understanding computers,
- rather than the other way around?
-