> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: and so it begins > > > > From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:06:02AM -0600, The Fool wrote: > > > But the number of possible pathways between any two nodes is the > > > factorial.
I think you guys are confusing two issues -- paths and states. Very few paths between nodes are necessary for a network, even a Boolean network, to be able to have a beyond-astronomical number of possible states. And IIRC, neurons have more than two possible states. Think of the brain's software as a state of its network, which is executed according to the rules of the nodes' interactions. In other words, the complexity arises from the number of possible state spaces far more than the number of paths from node to node, although the former depends in part on the latter, along with the number of states a node can be in. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
