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



