I apologize for my silly post earlier. It was mostly for my own benefit. I had never seen "analogly" either.
Thanks for the pointers to the code duality and biosemiotics material. The idea of thinking about an organism's analog message is new to me. In a way sex becomes the codec (coder/decoder). A term I see a lot on my day job as a voice/data network architect, working on voice over IP projects. Gregory Severance > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Note towards a foundational phenomenology of > analogic/discrete > From: Lanny Quarles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, May 10, 2005 6:11 pm > To: [email protected] > > I think we all have a pretty good working definition > of analog and digital, personally though I had never seen > the term "analogly" and like alan I think "analogly coded" > is something that could be up to conjecture. > > Sometimes though sitting here in this Semiconductor Manufacturing > Facility I really wish I didnt know what goes into the "digital" > the tons of toxic chemicals it takes to produce it, etc.. > > like some kind of bizarre clownfish i tend this technological coral > repairing, changing and cleaning its parts, marvelling at its > alien complexity, reading and interpreting the all pervasive > signatures of the universal enemy, entropy, whose various forms > of particle proliferation, mechanical decentering, vibration, > assymmetry, deformation etc form a quotidian strata of attractional > defects which give purpose to my day.. > > heheh > :) > > lq > > > > > For me, analog, in the sense: "Of, relating to, or being a device in > > which data are represented by continuously variable, measurable, > > physical quantities, such as length, width, voltage, or pressure." > The > > American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition > > Copyright � 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. > > > > In contrast to digital, in the sense of: "A description of data > which is > > stored or transmitted as a sequence of discrete symbols from a finite > > set, most commonly this means binary data represented using > electronic > > or electromagnetic signals." The Free On-line Dictionary of > Computing, > > � 1993-2005 Denis Howe > >
