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From: park@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Kihong Park)
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Subject: Re: Chaos and AI
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Date: 21 Mar 90 16:23:59 GMT
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In article <350@ntpdvp1.UUCP> sandyz@ntpdvp1.UUCP (Sandy Zinn) writes:
 Here's an excerpt from an article written by neurophysiologist Karl Pribram
 way back in *1959* (!), before fractals were even "invented":
 
   The effect of continued intrinsic sector activity will, according
   to this model, result in a sequence of patterns of information
   (partitions) of increasing complexity, which in turn allow more
   and more precise specification of particular elements...more and
   more information can be conveyed by any given input.  As a result,
   the organism's differentiative behavior remains invariant under a
   progressively narrower range of systems of *transformations* of
   the input -- differentiations become more absolute.
 
 I'm no mathematician, but this sounds like fractals to me.


Could you cite the reference where you got the excerpt from, please? 
Maybe it's just me, but this single excerpt does not directly indicate to
me a relation to fractals. It would be nice if you could "explain" your
understanding of the paragraph in a few sentences. Thanks.