“Digital intelligence” seems like an odd choice of terms. Nothing in what you are talking about needs to be digital per se by any of the usual meanings of digital. It would certainly be strange if humans made such an object that wasn’t digital but nothing in the definition requires it to be digital.
digital intelligence has certain advantages (e.g. copyability)
No degradation with iterative copying is a an advantage digital media is often thought to have over analog media. What I think they are trying to convey is perfect reproduction is possible and is a large advantage.
Nothing in what you are talking about needs to be digital per se by any of the usual meanings of digital.
Even in the sense of “running on a digital computer”?
(Historical note: when Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test thought experiment to answer the question “Can machines think?”, he defined “machine” to mean what he called a “digital computer”, i.e. an implementation of a Turing machine.)
“Digital intelligence” seems like an odd choice of terms. Nothing in what you are talking about needs to be digital per se by any of the usual meanings of digital. It would certainly be strange if humans made such an object that wasn’t digital but nothing in the definition requires it to be digital.
What about:
No degradation with iterative copying is a an advantage digital media is often thought to have over analog media. What I think they are trying to convey is perfect reproduction is possible and is a large advantage.
edit:spelling
Right. And there is an entire section later on ‘advantages from mere digitality’.
Even in the sense of “running on a digital computer”?
(Historical note: when Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test thought experiment to answer the question “Can machines think?”, he defined “machine” to mean what he called a “digital computer”, i.e. an implementation of a Turing machine.)