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From: miron@fornax.UUCP (Miron Cuperman )
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Can Machines Think?
Message-ID: <198@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 05:24:46 GMT
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Reply-To: miron@cs.sfu.ca (Miron Cuperman (Jones/Paul))
Organization: School of Computing Sceience, SFU, B.C., Canada
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In article <4711@itivax.iti.org> dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West) writes:
>In article <191@fornax.UUCP> miron@cs.sfu.ca (Miron Cuperman) writes:
>>You also wrote that chaotic systems are specificaly hard to model.  A
>>computer is a chaotic system.  
>
>How so?

Ok.  I was unclear.  The point is that many digital systems diverge
in output when just one info bit is changed.  My concept of chaos may
be fuzzy.

Actually, I would like to see some references on chaotic systems.
If I get enough, I may even post a list.

	Miron Cuperman
	miron@cs.sfu.ca