One of the fundamental problems in continuous and discrete revolves around what actually happens in reality vrs the limitations of the information medium that conveys it to us. The problem is as follows:
Everything that constitutes reality is undergoing a process of change. Every sequence of change has its own intrinsic rate of change. [This is time, incidentally, but not the point I am making here].
Logically, both the maximum number of states and the fastest rate of change potentially experienceable, is a function of the maximum frequency with which the medium conveying the information is able to differentiate them. This could differ from what actually exists, which should be inferable.
So, the attributes of the medium (the obvious one being light) needs to be disentangled from the resulting experience of reality, in order to extrapolate what was reality.
© Paul Reed
April 2011
Extracted from Theory of Reality and Time posted on Re Ality (Facebook, look for the boy with his cat)