When scientists fail to look at mona lisa they see numbers but not the art

Computers as media for representation are omnipresent. The advantages of digital representations ought to be understood beyond convenience. Such representations entail all the implicit assumptions of computation and all its advantages. They falsify-as does every medium-the represented, offering in high resolution the illusion of reality. We use an example to empirically demonstrate that the expectation of experimental reproducibility is eliminated in the computational representation. Given the fact that as syntactic processes characteristic of computation do not support the semantic or the pragmatic dimension of representation, no inferences to the represented can be made.