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> The brain is analog. Everyone always throws this out there, and I always think, "analogous to what?" But I think it must be in the meaning of continuous sign
by Maursault 4y ago
> The brain is analog.
Everyone always throws this out there, and I always think, "analogous to what?" But I think it must be in the meaning of continuous signal. But only at a macro or molecular scale could the brain be considered analog, because quantum mechanics is definitely not analog. "Quantum" implies "discrete" and is therefore digital. So the brain is digital at the quantum scale.
- x86x87 4y agoThe lesson here is that discrete is good enough. You can get better results by shrinking the physical representation of the ones and zeros.