Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > Brent Meeker writes (quoting Russell Standish): > > >>>This may be coincidental, but I think not. Your PC is engineered to >>>avoid the effects of chaos to prevent this very thing occurring. Why >>>wouldn't nature do the same thing unless it were deliberately trying >>>to exploit randomness? >> >>In nature there's no reason to depend on amplifying quantum randomness - >>there's >>plenty of "random" environmental input to keep our brains from getting stuck >>in loops. > > > And even without environmental input, unlike digital computers, brains have > enough "noise" > to keep from going into loops. Poincare recurrence won't kick in until long > after the brain > has turned to dust.
I'm not sure that's true. As I recall during the sensory-deprivation fad in the late 60's it was reported than people in a sensory-deprivation tank for an extended period (hour+) had their thoughts go into loops. Brent Meeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
