Life, the universe, everything - are we analogue or digital?

Question

Your thoughts please.

Answer 1

Both. If both exist and we know of them then we are both.
Examples.
Analogue: ageing is analogue
Digital (discrete): the nervous system and brain activity - when you watch tv you see objects moving fluidly, but in fact you are seeing a number of changing images per second (32?). The images change faster than your visual system (eyes and brain) can register, so what we see is sampled.

Answer 2

Analogue

Answer 3

We are digital and we are analogue. We are the physical (analogue) manifestation of the mental (digital) creation of the Whole (That which is eternal and never changing, timeless. It is everything and nothing can exist away from it.)
So we are digital (mental) process of The Whole which is then manifested as an analogue (physical) expression.

Answer 4

absolutely Analogue ...
Some physicians share tought about some kind of splitting between quants in energetic levels of electrons in quntum physics which coud be translated of some kind digitalism..
Anyway time is not very quanted so - it shoud be Analogue.
Only Analogues magnitudes can have perfect levels and perfect shapes.

Anyway - digitlaism is created to be easy storing values as voltage / magnetic levels in computer science.
It's not normaly representation of anything.
It's just a way to be represented easily for compute some limited magnitudes.
It's developed by John Atanasov - the father of computer science.
Anyway - every digital representation of analog signal is realy false representation - even closer to original analogue - it will reamin closer - not the same due some Integral/differential mathematic laws.

Answer 5

We are not absolutely sure about it yet. We do not like to be too definitive aboout the nature of things because we sense that there are more things to be realise and explored beyond the realms of the known. What we know as our knowledge is only the beginning of our quest. We see Life, the universe and everything in it as we can see for our own purpose and use, and at our best we claim to see things as we think they should be seen - are angles, heavens, human soul real for example? And are they analogue or digital? We do nto knwo, and we can not decide because these things or for the best of our belief, not for the good of our rational knowledge. There are things all around us that are in the reach of our mind but not within the grasp of our reason.

Even the world we know and define with our shared knowledge and understanding, is a world of duel nature. It has characteristics that prove that it is both digital and at the same time analogue. Perhaps it is digital in essence and analogue in its function, we do not know with any reasonable degree of certainty. For example the world is impossible without the presence of light and light has a nature we do not understand however good a use we make out of it. Light consists of energy packets called photons but light travels as an electromagnetic wave form – it has a duel nature.

Like is as we experience physically is harmonious, or you can say is like an analogue signal. We have bodily rhythms, mood swings, and periods of emotional excitations and cycles of spiritual regeneration. Then there is simple harmonic motion that rules all motion in the cosmos. All things are in rhythmic circular motion, galaxies, stars, planets, an small electrons all move in orbits round a centre. As a result time is born, and we witness minutes, days, years and centuries pass by. Seasons come and go, crops are harvested, birds migrate and creatures hibernate. Our entire life is orchestrated by this natural symphony by some divine musician, a virtuoso incognito.

There is life and death, we are alive, or we are not, Things are, or they are not, things exist or they don not. Something is there or it is not. There is not state in between life and death that we can comprehend. Just like a computer programme code we observe our existence life nulls and ones – like digit 0 and digit 1. When we breath, we breathe rhythmically but every time we breath in we come closer to existence - the life , and every time we breath out we go away from existence. The life oscillates like a pendulum between a 0 and a 1 - between on and off mode. Just like computer code that constitutes from nulls and ones a complete programme that we can use to record, edit and listen to music that is analogue.

I would say that the entire existence is in a permanent 'on' digital mode that we experience as an analogue signal – a hormonic wave form with its ups and downs but always on the move. We are more alive when we experience life like the sound of music. May it be a sad requiem or cheerful ditty it has to be rhythmic for us to understand and appreciate.

Answer 6

We are both equally charged making the ultimate answer 42.

Analogue is charged as 21.

and Digital is chaged as 21 also.

Therefore, making the answer 42.

Of course, the ration depends on people.

I think I'm 50:50, evenly charged.

My brain functions in various different ways in how I feel everyday.

Answer 7

Hey Iron Monkey,

We are spiritual and organic; a blurry methaphysical allegory surrounded by tissues.

I think of many people these days, myself included, as being ANALogue and DIGITal. A constant rush for Perfection conveyed by Keyboards and Buttons.

Answer 8

Analogue, with digital accessories.

Answer 9

Our nervous system operates on the principles of deterministic chaos and our reasoning is like fuzzy logic. That would makes us neither digital or analogue, just quantum. And that could explain a lot ...

Answer 10

We are Digital with 5.1 surround sound, and High Definition! I have a Friend who is analogue, and he's all blurry!!

Answer 11

Analogue, pure analogue.