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To: John Galt who wrote (720)	10/31/1996 11:20:00 PM
From: Krowbar	of 4006

<<But why does this dice-throwing in the brain occur at all?>> Perhaps all stimuli from our senses are weighted to prevent our brains from processing too much unneeded information. Maybe requiring a threshold at each synapse would act as a noise filter? Without it would the information overload cause chaos as in a siesure? Isn't this what we are trying to do to give computers fuzzy logic? This variability in synapse firing times might give the appearance of randomness. An analogy would be playing pacman an a computer. The gobbling head does not respond instantaniously to the keystrokes because the keyboard is polled many times per second, rather than being "on" at all times. This gives the head a jerky response that looks random. Is it? Del

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