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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 <721@trwacs.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
>From: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin)
>Subject: Re: Freewill, chaos and digital systems
>Date: 16 Sep 92 16:56:37 GMT

>I've come to the conclusion that the conscious mind is not
>innovative, but rather selects among innovations proposed to
>it by the unconscious. The question now becomes how the unconscious
>generates innovations. The process by which innovations are generated
>appears to be quasiperiodic, with a typical cycle length around seven, and
>related to both speech and the process by which memories are rehearsed. I
>suspect that the conscious mind interacts with it similarly to the way
>that Pecora and Stafford's control process interacts with a chaotic flow.
>The sophistication of the conscious mind lies in the subtlety of its
>choice making. (How do you measure the elegance of a mathematical proof?)

>Cheers,
>-- 
>Harry Erwin
>Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com

But what's doing the interpreting? Atoms are interpreting atoms, uh?
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