Claims / C-NYKAFE3SKR

Conjecture

Without error correction all information processing, and so all knowledge creation, is bounded, because errors accumulate per step. Error correction that stays unbounded over arbitrarily many steps needs a digital representation: analog feedback (homeostasis, thermostats) holds continuous variables within bounds, but only discrete values let an erroneous value be told apart from a correct one exactly, which is why every jump to universality (computers, alphabets, speech, the genetic code) happens in digital systems.

Coordination architecture

Evidence 2 passages

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    Without error correction, all information processing, and hence all knowledge creation, is necessarily bounded. Error correction is the beginning of infinity.

  • groundsSource document

    Because of the necessity of error correction, all jumps to universality occur in digital systems.

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