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From: brp@sim.uucp (bruce raoul parnas)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: NN Question
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Date: 16 Mar 89 22:13:35 GMT
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In article <10192@nsc.nsc.com> andrew@nsc.nsc.com (andrew) writes:

>Further, I believe Walter Friedman has presented recently on information
                             ^ ^   (Freeman)
>processing _in vivo_ where he postulates that chaotic attractors are a
>key element in biological information processing. I'm afraid that's as much

This is all presuming that you believe it is possible to experimentally
distinguish between chaos and noise, which is also assumed to be present in
the nervous system.  Personally i don't have much faith in freeman's 
assertions concerning chaos, but i'm also not an expert in the area.

bruce
(brp@sim)