In article <[log in to unmask]>, Ahmad Risk
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Forget chaos. The future is probably in neural networks and
>organic/bio-chips (not of the hugely over priced variety doan at the
>supermarket).
Agreed to a point.
In 1990/1 Walter Freeman published some papers on self-organisation and
memory. When he attached an EEG to a rat's 'neural net' (olfactory lobe)
he obtained a reading for different odours smelt by the rat but could
find no correlation between one and the next.
He then applied an array of 60 electrodes and when the rat smelled an
odour, (no jokes please) a repeatable spatial pattern emerged. Different
odours gave different spatial patterns that were recognizable. The
interesting thing was that each new odour changed the pattern of the
previous odour(s) slightly. The significance of this was the lack of
fixed physiological patterns in the brain. Although mainly stable, the
patterns of old knowledge re-organised themselves slightly with new
knowledge. Self-organisation.
Regards
George
--
And out of the chaos, a voice spoke:
"Smile and be happy, for it can always be worse".
And I smiled, and I was happy, and it did get worse.
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