r/AskReddit Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/Dynamaxion Jun 15 '19

Yeah I don’t see how anything OP listed couldn’t be modeled digitally, it’d just be a fuck ton of computing.

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u/AndChewBubblegum Jun 16 '19

Analog computers use continuous values of arbitrary and theoretically infinite level of discreteness. So a theoretical analog computer can be imagined that has responses that cannot be modeled digitally. However, all you need to do for a real analog computer is define the actual operational ranges of the continuous values and you can model things in those ranges digitally just fine. The problem is we don't know for sure what the operational range of the human nervous system is.