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In <37kln5$nh3@portal.gmu.edu> herwin@vanish (Harry Erwin) writes:

>I'm new to this aspect of the field, and I think I got it garbled. In
>order to get around a digital model of the brain using PDE integration
>techniques, I need arbitrarily small significant features.

The whole idea that the brain is doing something that requires
integrating PDEs seems very unlikely to me.  The brain is made of
biological cells, and cells do not have the high precision where the
boundedness of 4th derivatives would have any particular relevance.

Personally, I tend to doubt any argument which tries to make anything
important out of a difference between digital and analog.  It is
worth remembering that movie theaters have long been delivering
discrete shows, with the picture image switching 24 times per second,
and except for the occasional backward turning wagon wheels, it all
looks continuous to us.  This should caution us that arguments about
the importance of analog components are bogus.