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This seems to lead back to the question of whether the brain acts
as a continuous system or whether there are significant aspects of
the functioning that are discretized, for example by intrinsic 
framing rates in which cell assemblies communicate with neighbors
or more globally. See

Baird B., Bifurcation and Category Learning in Network Models of    
Oscillating Cortex, Physica D 42 (1990) pp. 365-384  

for discussion of the latter view. There may be significant 
functional benefits of discretization. I'm interested in any 
additional references anyone might know of on discretization or
macro scale quantization effects. Llinas, in Koch (ed) Large 
Scale Neuronal Theories of the Brain, seems to be discuss 40Hz
spatial scanning as a kind of framing as well; don't have the
exact reference here. 
  
     
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