Re: Analog vs Digital

From: William Morse (wdmorse_at_twcny.rr.com)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC)

john_SPAM@wilkins.id.au (John Wilkins) wrote in news:cb7rtg$mpl$1
@darwin.ediacara.org:

> <RobertMaas@YahooGroups.Com> wrote:

>> By the way, the bag-of-lipids with set of replicators that we were
>> discussing a few weeks as possible pre-life, worked in a
>> statistical/analog way regarding frequencies (abundances) of the
>> various replicators, but in a digital way regarding presence or absence
>> of a particular replicator in a particular bag.
>> (DNS should read DNA above, sigh.)
 
> "Presence" and "absence" defined according to which threshold? :-)

I expect he meant presence and absence defined according to whether either
there is one or more of a particular replicator in the bag or there are
none of a particular replicator in the bag. But of course this is a
"digital" definition, so it couldn't possibly be right :-)

Yours,

Bill Morse