Is Reality Analog or Digital?

One great question is whether reality is digital or analog, i.e., can reality be precisely expressed in some numeric fashion, or is there always something incommensurable and illusive about our digital models. Another issue regards whether holism or reductionism is the right way to approach reality. In a holistic view, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts. For the reductionist, the whole is exactly the sum of the parts. A third point is the stark contrast between the frenetic quantum world of sub-atomic particles, which, for all of its Salvador Dali wackiness, composes a grand clock-like precision on an intergalactic scale. Next one should consider the great debate between the mathematicians Godel and Hilbert regarding whether everything which is true should be mathematically provable. And, finally, Einstein' comment that no one could possibly infer through inductive examination of phenomena, at the laws of quantum and relativity.

Now here is an excerpt from something I once wrote called "Tohu Bohu" (darkness and void.)

Let us say that Divinity is Consciousness; Consciousness is divine, imagination is an aspect of consciousness, and within the realm of imagination dwell all things, and at imagination's borders, all impossibilities, absurdities, unicorns and horned rabbits, await admission and entrance. Hence, Imagination is the threshold of existence, and the unimaginable is non-being.

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Thoughts are certainly a part of existent being and reality. Someone like Einstein, or Heisenberg, or Bohr, has within there mind the ability to produce a kaleidoscopic array of mathematical models of possible realities. One day, someone stumbles on a correspondence between one of those mathematical models, and something in measurable, experienced phenomena. This is what Einstein might have meant in saying that no one could inductively arrive at quantum or relativity through experience and observation alone.