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From: ABOULANGER@G.BBN.COM (Albert Boulanger)
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Subject: Re: Information flow discussions
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 Anthony Pelletier writes:
 P.S. I think alot about information flow problems and would enjoy
 discussions on that...if anyone wants to chat.

For a real "juicy" discussion of information flow in non-linear
systems see:

"Strange Attractors, Chaotic Behavior, and Information Flow"
Robert Shaw, Z. Naturforsch, 36a, 80-112 1981

This discusses the information flow characteristics of non-linear
systems in order to gain insight on how non-linear systems self-organize.
(This self-organization aspect of non-linear dynamical systems
is an aspect of neural networks. See for example Kohonen's work
on self-organizing feature maps in "Self-Organization and
Associative Memory" Springer-Verlag 1984. This feature map stuff
is a type of unsupervised learning.)

Albert Boulanger
BBN Labs
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