#discrete time

My comments: Consider the possibility that the appearance of digital granularity is an emergent property of the very distance that we are introducing by observing through our body rather than directly with our awareness. Space and time are intrinsically continuous by our naive definition of it. It is the index by which other comparisons can be made. When we use our body's organs to observe the exterior of other physical bodies and substances, we are extending our native frame of reference, but losing one level of authenticity. When we use a technological instrument, we are extending our extended frame of reference, but we are also losing at least one, and maybe many more levels of authenticity, leaving us with a drastically reduced epistemological set. I think that it may be this process of reduction and dilution of authenticity which gives the unnatural image of granular space and time the illusion of seeming natural. Think of how we digitize; we sample and clip until we have a homogenized unit. It is a refined, conditioned, artificial fragment. It may be the functionally relevant fragment as far as communication is concerned, but the actual content of what is being communicated is minimized and we are left increasingly with measurements of measurement. It is measurement which fragments space and interrupts time.

Taisen Deshimaru