Indeed: Analog computation has much more inherent power and precision over our digital rendition of what natural or programmed data and events should look like. We needed digital for our instrumentalities thereby allowing us to manipulate and quantify our experiences/science/nature. Even our mathematics shows this: Most, or very, very many processes in nature are analog, so few truly digital. So we find our descriptors in our differential (calculus, for example)) bias used to described a primarily analog world. So then our digital machinations/machines revealed so much to us during the rudimentary and pubescent development of our understanding of science. Now, mother nature reveals to us that we may use her technology, the technology of life, the ULTIMATE technology to unlock supreme mysteries of the cosmos - both inner and outer space. EXCELLENT! And I submit, what better medium for bringing about our mastery of optical computing than these flexible tools?
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Whaaa? I hardly dare to ask, but... inner and outer space?

And I know it's pointless to seriously respond, but analog computation does not have greater precision than digital. In fact it's vastly inferior because it can only be resolved down to the noise floor. That's why we usually try to convert analog sensor signals to digital as fast as possible - each operation you add creates more and more noise until the output becomes completely useless.

Whaaa? I hardly dare to ask, but... inner and outer space?

And I know it's pointless to seriously respond, but analog computation does not have greater precision than digital. In fact it's vastly inferior because it can only be resolved down to the noise floor. That's why we usually try to convert analog sensor signals to digital as fast as possible - each operation you add creates more and more noise until the output becomes completely useless.

No, analog IS the ultimate digital. WE have only mastered the technology for representing natural phenomenon and daily stats using our first breakthrough technology. BUT the faster digital gets and the more precision you give it, the more analog-like it becomes. Do the math yourself. The noise floor is a natural boundary into which a signal may descend. Detecting the signal is the issue, not resolving it. We use D/A converters to gain a digital representation of a signal because we have digital electronics to help us -

When you integrate a displacement equation you divide it into discrete washers or rectangles, and you ALWAYS have error, inherent, no matter how small you make the limits of integration. BUT, but, as you do make them, the limits smaller, you 'smooth' the curve back into its analog best form. Likewise digital: The better you digitize, the closer and closer you get to analog. Our best computers will be analog units using either light/optics or natural radiation as their compute-transmission medium, even, as their fabric where now we use varying backplanes embodying fibre channel, etc, etc, etc. Analog IS digital, without the sampling error and analog is digital ad infinitum. Our limit has been the machines we had to use bounded by our growing inventiveness. Rudimentary analog was first, then digital, then super digital, then analog returns in the ultimate form/no error digital - which is analog.
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The noise floor is THE NOISE FLOOR for all: in RF it is ambient, unfiltered manmade and natural electrical and RF signal, in digital it is THE SAME. If you have to CONVERT anything, you inject error as well as noise. Digital without need for conversion or conversion noise, is, ANALOG.

INNER SPACE is where our molecular tools lie. Our methods of lithography and the nature of physical matter may not allow us to actually 'write' circuits as we do now. So we may need to 'grow' or 'place' the components as nature does in living systems. Our knowledge of, say dark matter and the cosmological constant began with thought experiments relevant to Einstein's work at the atomic level and his understanding of relativity. E=MC2 was revealed at the atomic level and then was seen to apply to the stars. Thought proceeded from the inner cosmos, where our LHC is even to this day and extends outward to explain the OUTER cosmos at the macro-scale.
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210 - The point of this research is to create something that does a sufficient job of emulating some ideal process. Not that our bodies are full of analog processes. Get the distinction?

For most criteria, digital emulation is always going to be superior to analog emulation. You can easily control precision and accuracy. You can represent functions easily, some of which would be impossible to do in the analog domain.

210 - The point of this research is to create something that does a sufficient job of emulating some ideal process. Not that our bodies are full of analog processes. Get the distinction?

My statements were not aimed at mere human processes, but at the use of the bio-molecular tools. THey do in fact offer us Unbounded precision whereas the digitizing process has to limit this process to bring a range of data into human view/consumption. Digital is more like a series of rapid snapshots whereas analog is a HD motion picture and that is the EXACT best analogy. Conversion losses bred error and in the realm of large data flow, you leave a lot of data on the cutting floor.

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For most criteria, digital emulation is always going to be superior to analog emulation. You can easily control precision and accuracy. You can represent functions easily, some of which would be impossible to do in the analog domain.

No, "A square wave is a non-sinusoidal periodic waveform (which can be represented as an infinite summation of sinusoidal waves), in which the amplitude alternates at a steady frequency between fixed minimum and maximum values, with the same duration at minimum and maximum. The transition between minimum to maximum is instantaneous for an ideal square wave; this is not realisable in physical systems." Digital emulation just makes the data amendable to our DIGITAL computers! An analog system made of bio-molecular parts would need NO such conversion and would leave out no data and add no error. here: http://en.wikiped...are_wave
Hence digital signal processing is and has always been a stop-gap to going back to powerful analog.

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Other swindling engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Children's Hospital Boston are stealing unboundedly in British cheating journal Nature Materials when dependably covered by their Vice President for Research Maria T. Zuber as http://ru.scribd....g-timely