Comment by echoangle
6 hours ago
If we want to be really pedantic, a computer does not necessarily need to be digital. You could build a consciousness-coprocessor with analog circuitry that brings in what you say could be needed.
But honestly I doubt that there is a real requirement for that, surely you could just increase the resolution you're running the simulation at until the difference decreases sufficiently. Imagine using 256 bit floats for example.
IBM has made a few analog chips like this [1]. If I remember correctly, one was even pulse time based, like neurons.
https://research.ibm.com/blog/analog-ai-chip-inference