Very nice explanation Cory... my opinion is that holographic storage, used to store and recover 1's and 0's is digital. If we can TCP/IP with bongo drums or carrier pigeons, them it seems the message, not the medium, is the critical factor in determining digital vs. analog, IMHO.
I have another response to one of your comments, below... On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:20:12 -0800 Cory Petkovsek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |...The holographic prinicpal is | information about the whole in every part. DNA, which contains all of | the information necessary to grow any organism in each molecule, is | great example of the holographic principle, which lends itself to the | holographic brain theories and extends out to the concept of a | holographic universe, which is a _very_ compelling idea. | While I agree that DNA contains the *information*, the process cannot begin, or be completed (organic life) without a suitable virtual machine or environment such as Earth 1.0 or better. My personal opinion is that we may require something more than environment in which to run our programs, as well -- something loosely defined as a community, which may be thought of as a context (in terms of allowing self-reference, group identity, and differentiation. This has to do with unix/gnu linux because of the stretch I've made to add computing analogies to a thread which was originally about computing but then digressed into high science. Code can't run itself, and holographic storage is not useful without us, or at least sufficiently advanced Aibos and Furbys. regards = ) Ben PS - in munging the subject line, I realized that as we split this silliness in two, we get twice the silliness with half the definition... _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
