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

[Alan Sondheim]

This is on a different level re: below. I'm talking about quantum 
operations; for the other, the essay I did on analog/digital aphorisms 
seems to cover the situation. But the issue is one of foundations, not 
engineering, and it's here one has to look, for better or worse, to things 
like qm or even for example the mathematics of the continuum.

- Alan


On Tue, 10 May 2005, brian carroll wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
> brian thomas carroll: research-design-development
> architecture, education, electromagnetism
> http://www.mnartists.org/brian_carroll
> http://www.electronetwork.org/bc/
>

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