hah, it's funny. i come at all of this from a sensorimotor control view (even though i was very interested in speech and language- as for a cs person discrete s

hah, it's funny. i come at all of this from a sensorimotor control view (even though i was very interested in speech and language- as for a cs person discrete stuff is easier to reason about) and while i can appreciate ideas like this and the shenoy lab stuff, when i worked on this stuff in practice we had no discrete symbols as we decoded continuous variables like positions, velocities, angles and torques- which didn't seem to have clean mappings into comms/noisy channel theory/info theory.