> My point was that these things are a small subset of cognition, and most of cognition we have no particular reason to think depends on discreteness, which I t

> My point was that these things are a small subset of cognition, and most of cognition we have no particular reason to think depends on discreteness, which I think is the same point you're making. How do you convince yourself that you have thoughts that cannot be accurately written down no matter how many words you use? > Personally I strongly suspect that the "discrete" aspects of cognition are things that have evolved on top of / within a system that is fundamentally continuous (analogue) in nature. How do you tell whether things are really fundamentally continuous, or a really high definition pixel art?