On Feb 20, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Michael Wojcik wrote:
> Flick Harrison wrote: > >> I can understand the temptation to reduce "digital" to "numbers." > > There may be such a temptation, but at the end of the day, "digital" > and certain fields of "numbers" (namely discrete ones), as technical > terms, are isomorphic. There's no reduction going on. actually, digital things are not necessarily numbers at all, just discrete values or objects. while we think of digital computing as binary numbers, one can also thing of it as just a system of discrete signals, that may not need to map onto numbers. that you can represent things in numbers does not mean that the discrete object is a number, nor need it truly map to a number. there should be no necessary isomorphism, though, there usually is. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
