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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Freedom of the will or quantum encephalitis?
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:27:11 GMT
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In article <BILL.95Jul28215705@ca2.nsma.arizona.edu>,
Bill Skaggs <bill@nsma.arizona.edu> wrote:
............
>in the dynamical systems sense.  Chaotic systems are susceptible to
>the so-called "butterfly effect", which is a cute way of saying that
>perturbations are amplified exponentially.  (The butterfly effect is
>the fact that, because the weather is a chaotic system, a butterfly
>flapping its wings will alter the course of hurricanes a few years in
                    ^^^^
Shouldn't this be "may"?

>the future.)  In the same way, individual quantum events in the brain
>will probably lead, after enough time has elapsed, to large-scale
>changes in the neural patterns comprising consciousness and the will.
>
>I emphasize, though, that this by no means implies that Eccles or
>Penrose are right.
>
>	-- Bill

Andrzej
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