Some have questioned digital information systems, doubting their power. But digital information has been used to transmit movement commands, auditory information, visual information and it stands to reason far more will be possible in the future.
Brain computer interfaces, allow a computer to directly stimulate the brain and induce a sensation. At present rudimentary versions exist, but in the future these may become far more advanced. Nothing seemingly prohibits a high bandwidth brain machine interface.
Future high bandwidth brain computer interfaces, it stands to reason, will one day enable the transmission, recording and replay of thought, emotion and sensation. Essentially all conscious experience will be shareable, distributable and storable. A digital system will store and transmit the essence of human experience, the qualia across long distances.
But if digital information, is able to store and transmit even the most miraculous and impressive of all natural phenomena, the sensations of consciousness, why would it be lacking regards the rest of the phenomena found in nature?
Right now some may debate or argue such cannot ever be, but there doesn't seem to be any barriers for such future development. Once such technology arrives, how can we say that digital information lacks in versatility? May it not be that the nature of the universe itself, of existence itself, is digital at heart?
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