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What's interesting is the use of words like "links" and "transitional". The science of taxonomy itself contradicts Darwin's theory." But in discrete electrronics there is the third unstable "transitional state" this could be analogized as the fossil "missing links" or "transitional forms" Rare but necessary. They're so fast you cannot see them on an oscilloscope unles you set the controls to catch them.

Not in any way.

I think so. A discrete system would use different words in describing it's dynamics.

For instance. In discrete electronics the word "transitional" and "threshold" is used to describe aspects of the system. You transition from one stable state to another stable state once you pass the specified energy level. And during the short transition time the system is unstable.

A continuous system has no "stable states" it's continuously in an untenable "state" whithin a universe of a infinite number of micro states. You use terms like "slew rate" , "dynamic range", "linearity"

The fact that we use the term "transitional" implies "transitioning between stable states" and once there we find it convenient to characterize said state. i.e. Taxonomy.

Gould and Eldredge's "punctuated equilibrium" best describes evolutionary discretness. Not Darwin's continuum.