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From: wlp@calmasd.Prime.COM (Walter Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: PROBABLE COMPLEXITY QUOTIENT
Summary: Some picky points
Keywords: A step towards quantification of chaos?
Message-ID: <361@calmasd.Prime.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 89 15:07:31 GMT
References: <1591@infmx.UUCP>
Organization: Prime - San Diego R&D (Object and Data Management Group)
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In article <1591@infmx.UUCP>, briand@infmx.UUCP (brian donat) writes:
> 
> Please feel free to hack away at the following:
> 

OK. 

> 
> Given that the Human Brain is complex, complex to the point that we regard
> it now in the terminology of chaos theory...


Complexity alone is not a sufficient condition for chaos.  The
necessary and sufficient condition for chaotic behavior is that the
system be a non-linear dynamic system.  



> 
> 	2.   done any mathematical calculations to estimate a probable   
> 		complexity figure characteristic for the human brain?
> 
> 		Is there such an animal as a probable complexity figure?
> 		Complexity quotient? 


The term dosn't sound familiar. What do you mean by it ?


> What 'non-living' synthetic model could match the complexity quotient of
> all these variations and still reflect the order of control necessary to 
> play trivial games such as passing a Turing Machine Test? 

I don't really think that the Turing Test, if properly performed, is
all that trivial a task for a machine.

> Really, is there such a thing as a complexity quotient? 

I don't believe so.

Your basic ideas here are interesting. I for one would like to see
some more explaination of what you mean by some of your terms.

-- 
Walt Peterson.  Prime - San Diego R&D (Object and Data Management Group)
"The opinions expressed here are my own."