Alternate ending to "Contact" where Jodie Foster realizes that the aliens' thought processes are discrete instead of continuous, thus they are not intelligent
Ryan Cavanaugh
"Alas, they’re not thinking in the continuous sense you and I experience; they are merely providing themselves with a discrete sequence of internal prompts."
seen this one before
conputer dipshit
I wonder how much of the argument ultimately turns on the debatable idea that computation is discrete while reality is continuous
