Glen: "2) dampening edits or negative reinforcement" I am positing that negative feedback also exists in such a system and is partly responsible for the phenomenon of delta switching. Different flows in branches can be construed as probabilities, but with the additional action of sedimentary deposition, which can supply a dampening mechanism over branches. Perhaps the key to completing the picture is to note the potential between the source and mouth of the river is effectively constant. The sedimentary deposition has a similar effect on the flow that memristors have in physical neural nets. I guess my point is that *feedback loops* need not be understood in the abstract as explicit loops on a graph. The materials and the physics have the property without the river's flow being explicitly a loop.
ps. I had considered changing the word claim to axiom or constraint or something else but figured I was spending too much time stressing over pedantry :) -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
