Ep 178: Its, Bits, Qubits *Part 2*
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The Zenos Paradox of the Impossibility of Motion
The idea that complicated processes can be analyzed as combinations of simple ones has not been easy to reconcile with the benefit of hindsight. I think that this is what Zeno's paradox of the impossibility of motion was really about. Had he been familiar with classical physics and the concept of information process, he might have put it something like this. Consider the flight of an arrow as described in classical physics. To understand what happens during the flight, we could try to regard the real valued position coordinates of the arrow as pieces of information. And so we cannot characterize it as an elementary computation performed on what we are trying to regard as information, causing the MRI reflection.
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