john_SPAM{at}wilkins.id.au (John Wilkins) wrote in
news:c912oh$2n2u$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org: 

> All data storage in the real world is analogue. The only difference
> between analogue and digital is the fidelty of replication. I think
> that any evolutionary process is going to maximise the fidelity to the
> point where further improvements would be too costly, no matter
> whether it is cultural, biological or technological. I completely
> agree with Tim, and would say that "digital" is, in the real (as
> opposed to abstract) world, a name for "very-high-fidelity
> reproduction" over analogue substrates. 

Umm - whatever happened to your reductionist stance? Unless you are denying 
quantum mechanics, or are arguing for emergent properties, it would seem 
that your only logically consistent argument would  be that  all data 
storage in the real world is digital. 


Yours,

Bill Morse
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