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Re:Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or ... by analog31 on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:13AM (#17123871)
This topic is admittedly way over my head, but the analogy that comes to mind for me is audio recording and transmission. Back in the day, it was done with entirely analog systems, yet FM radio produced an intelligible output despite being bathed in a sea of noise.

Granted, after enough transcriptions, or if stored over a long enough period, the signal would begin to get washed out... kind of like the information in my brain.

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Re:Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or ... by jonnybgood on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:53AM (#17123988)
That analogy doesn’t work. Radio is not in a sea of noise due to frequency. Or I should say that unless there are other sources on a particular frequency, noise will not affect communication.
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