One more reason for the p-adicity of cognition

One can present several justifications for why p-adic numbers are natural correlates of cognition and why p-adic topology is tailor-made for computation. One possible justification derives from the ultrametricity of p-adic norm stating that the p-adic norm is never larger than the maximum of the norms of summands. If one forms functions of real arguments, a cutoff in decimal or more general expansion of arguments introduces a cumulating error, and in principle one must perform calculation assuming that the number of digits for the arguments of function is higher than the number digits required by the cutoff, and drop the surplus digits at the end of the calculations. In p-adic case the situation is different. The sum for the errors resulting from cutoffs is never p-adically larger than the largest individual error so that there is no cumulation of errors , and therefore no need for surplus pinary digits for the arguments of the function. In practical computations this need not have great significance unless they involve very many steps but in cognitive processing the situation might be different.

For background see chapter p-Adic Physics as Physics of Cognition and Intention of "TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness".