"Intent" is not a number

By Sean McGrath, ITworld.com

Surrounded, as we are, by the digitizing of almost everything, it is easy to get swept along by the tide. As digital barrier after barrier comes crashing down, it is easy to succumb to the notion that everything can, in principle become digital in some shape or form. Some of a more theoretical bent often point out the possibility that the entire universe is really just a great big computer following some fundamentally simple, deterministic rules. It follows, therefore, does it not, that we can encode anything in a form that a computer can understand?

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