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>From: exukjb@exu.ericsson.se (ken bell)
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Subject: Re: Freewill, chaos and digital systems
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In article <Bt4xt1.MA0.1@cs.cmu.edu> rudis+@cs.cmu.edu (Rujith S DeSilva) writes:
>From: rudis+@cs.cmu.edu (Rujith S DeSilva)
>Subject: Freewill, chaos and digital systems
>Date: 17 Aug 92 16:00:32 GMT

>(1) Does freewill arise solely through the mechanism of chaos?
>(2) Can digital systems exhibit chaos (as opposed to simulating it to a
>    limited extent)?
>(3) What if a digital system is coupled to a chaotic system, e.g., some sort
>    of unstable oscillator that can be sampled to give one bit of information?

>Just some random thoughts that popped into my head ... comments solicited.

>Rujith de Silva.
>Carnegie-Mellon University.

>// Ivy: What Roman golfers shouted //

Can there be absolute or total chaos? By "total chaos" one would presumably 
have in mind no order or intelligible relationships at all, not just no 
discoverable ones.  I don't think this is coherent.  Imagine a cosmos, no, 
sorry, a chaos, with particles flying about in random motion.  Wouldn't the 
particles themselves be organized a bit? 



 
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