1) Will drop this thread after this last postThere is no something and nothing, just two different but "equal" states. The two states can be called red and black and it will still work, and yet red is NOT GREATER than black.
2) Red and black are not numbers. A computer is a number machine which is able to do calculations on numbers. You can't yield new quantities with something other than quantities to begin with. It deals with quantities, the fundamental ones being "something" and "nothing" (1 and 0) represented as presence and absence of voltage. It compares these quantities (1 > 0, by always yielding 1 in an XOR comparison) to yield higher quantities. Red and black combinations don't yield new quantities unless red and black themselves represent quantities. If 1 and 0 were equal states, or equal quantities, there'd be no capacity to count.
3) Wasn't trying to argue for argument's sake. I put up a valid non-philosophical, completely scientific informal proof of the idea that gates are doing a forced comparison in order to rebuff the concept that gates don't compare, which I think is a very useful concept for someone trying to understand what a computer is doing. Not at all trying to be antagonistic -- this entire thread has been very helpful -- it did tangentialize into this subargument concerning comparison, but I have no more to say on the topic.
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