LANGUAGE (Digital or Analogic)
Charles François (2004). LANGUAGE (Digital or Analogic), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1851.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1851 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented |
Communication languages can be digital or analogic.
According to A. WILDEN: “Digital communication, which depends on the combination of discrete and discontinuous elements that can be generally considered as arbitrary signs, has more logical complexity -but less semantic wealth- than analogic communication” (1972, p.48).
Indeed, digital language corresponds to the pure logical formalism of BOOLE's binary algebra (1952) and concerns itself basically with communication techniques, but not with semantics.
Compare with the concepts of “metron” and “logon” of D. GABOR and D.M. MacKAY, with K. STEINBUCH's learning matrixes and A. KORZYBSKI's structural differential.