On Thursday, April 29, 2021, at 10:49 PM, Jim Bromer wrote:
> I was reading your comment that, "Storage is transmission," and I realized, 
> based on an idea I had a number of years ago, that if digital data was in 
> constant transmission form then the null signal could be used for a value 
> (like 0).

Yes, codecs are part of spatiotemporal transmitters and usually between 
conscious entities.  Storage is transmission through time, imagine a 
post-glacial petroglyph carved in a rock by an ancient person in a society. The 
carver is creating a compressed full-duplex transmission to his/herself to be 
received by other conscious entities as half-duplex, us. We can’t transmit 
backwards through time to the transmitter (not yet at least) and we decompress 
similarly to the original compressor. Storage can be single hop, one rock, or 
multi-hop, multi-rock when other conscious entities copy it and retransmit.

I’m still trying to decide if this is true – all compressed data is meant for 
transmission.
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