Note towards a foundational phenomenology of analogic/discrete 'domains.' (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 14:18:50 -0500
From: brian carroll <human at electronetwork.org>
To: sondheim at panix.com
Cc: syndicate at anart.no
Subject: Note towards a foundational phenomenology of analogic/discrete
     'domains.'


  hi Alan. you previously wrote about the analog and
  digital in relation to probability and possibly with
  questions as a type of superposition - with judgment
  or decision of something that may be suspended in waves
  of options simultaneously, to become a particular choice.
  this realm is where to me it seems logics change, and the
  idea of paradox has some utility between transformations
  of analog/digital, particle/wave, binary/trinary (?) where
  'the question' may exist between these states or as a state
  of question/unknown/neutral. i do not know. though to me it
  is a question directly related to in electronics hardware,
  and the schematics of analog-to-digital (and vice-versa)
  convertors, the chips themselves and their processes may
  be a type of writing or analysis of these conditions of
  relating the realms, in the physical, of these ideas.

  wikipedia; Analog-to-digital converter
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_to_digital_converter

  sample integrated chip schematic - ADS5270: 8-Channel, 12-Bit,
  40MSPS ADC with Serial LVDS Interface (Rev. D) (ads5270.pdf, 450 KB)
  http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/ads5270.html
  http://www-s.ti.com/sc/ds/ads5270.pdf

  ((for example: 'theory of operation' section and diagrams))

  it would be interesting if a type of 'analog/digital'
  gallery realm would open up, which could likewise bring
  different approaches into functional relation, similarly.

other urls

Experiment 8 - Digital To Analog Conversion
http://www.learn-c.com/experiment8.htm
Experiment 9 - Analog To Digital Conversion
http://www.learn-c.com/experiment9.htm

more datasheets/diagrams
http://www-us6.semiconductors.com/pip/TDA8703.html
http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/texasinstruments/1/

  also, the one difference in your most recent last post
  on these ideas, i tend to think it is in terms of the
  hypothesis and not theory so much or as much, relating
  conceptually to probabilities and distributed outcomes.
  i think this is the fulcrum of problems with language-
  based thinking that is a logical fallacy to equate the
  two, and has also become a question of dogma in relation
  to believing vs. questioning, law prior to knowing, etc,
  that empirical data builds on and does not just invent/
  declare (plaguing much 'digital/media' discourse, imo).
  i love these considerations as a conceptual territory
  for clarifying such ideas in relation to the physical
  environment of artifacts, such as the chips and coding,
  which (electronically) could ground so much experience
  if it could be related to similar ideas and thinking.
  electronics fuse the same things, the math with the
  language, the science with the art, logic with belief,
  hardware with software, digital with analog, waves
  with particles, code with processing, etc. and may
  have established a framework that could clarify it
  in an artifact, how these concepts relate and with
  reverse-conceptualization may offer a diagrammatic
  (visual) approach to understanding the continuum,
  or how the gap is bridged, etc.  i have no idea how
  to read this in-depth, the chips, though the context
  or general zone and this electronic landscape is a
  place that may contain and reveal these mysteries.
  Brian


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  architecture, education, electromagnetism
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