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From: gordon@warwick.UUCP (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: neural networks
Message-ID: <297@euclid.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-May-86 10:39:34 EDT
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Organization: Maths Institute, Warwick University, UK
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This may be a bit of  a tangent, but I feel it  might have some impact on
the current discussion.
The mathematical theory of chaotic systems is currently an active area of
research. The main observation is that models of even very simple systems
become chaotic in a very small space of time.
The human brain is far from being a simple system,  yet the transition to
chaos rarely occurs.  There must be a self-correcting  element within the 
system itself, as it is often perturbed by myriad external stimuli.
Is the positive feedback mentioned in article <837@mhuxt.UUCP> thought to 
be similar to the self-correcting mechanisms in the brain?

Gordon Joly -- {seismo,ucbvax,decvax}!mcvax!ukc!warwick!gordon