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Re:Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or ... by Maybestring on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @10:30AM (#17126141)
>It can't be modeled using a sequence of discrete symbols, but it's also stable over time in the presence of noise.

Did you mean can be?

When you learned to be integrate continuous functions, I'm certain you learned to do it while scratching sequences of discrete symbols onto paper.

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Re:Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or ... by panic on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @04:05PM (#17128964)
Using discrete symbols to describe a continuous model is different than using a discrete model. In this case, the paper is arguing that a particular discrete model based on sequences of discrete symbols (Shannon information theory) applies to the problem, not an arbitrary model including things like integrals.
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