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From: bradley@phillip.edu.au (Bradley White, Systems Programmer)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: fractals as bad science
Message-ID: <3952@phillip.edu.au>
Date: 22 Nov 89 22:35:28 GMT
References: <19544@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1619@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1449@mrsvr.UUCP> <4158@celit.fps.com>
Organization: Phillip Institute of Tech, Melbourne
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In article <4158@celit.fps.com>, hutch@fps.com (Jim Hutchison) writes:
> In <1449@mrsvr.UUCP> hallett@gemed.ge.com (Jeffrey A. Hallett) asks:
>>In <1619@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) states:
>>> And I think the problem it has  raised is  "how does this  relate to
>>> the real world?" 
> 
>>But Bill, isn't that a problem with a whole bunch of studies?  Someone
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> 
> How about the pattern of nerve impulses in a properly functioning heart?
> There was a program on Chaos on a network educational TV program, in which
> they showed 2 different graphs of nerve activity in the human heart.  The
> nice ordered pattern was fibrilation (bad), the disordered (looking) model
> was a normal functioning heart.  Seems that ordered pulses are not all that
> productive, a nice sort-of-space-filling pattern is apparently much better.
> Sorry to quote from TV, but I have no serious interest in medicine.
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How true. I think you have your examples around the wrong way..

> 
> --
> /*    Jim Hutchison   		{dcdwest,ucbvax}!ucsd!celerity!hutch  */
> /*    Disclaimer:  I am not an official spokesman for FPS computing   */
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