Monday, February 12, 2007

The Homunculus...

Cooperation evolves to such a degree in this symbiotic relationship that we look for a homunculus in the brain. Yet none has been found. What has been found is a vast chaotic looking network of neurons firing.

"In chaotic systems, very minute changes in initial conditions grow exponentially into large differences in final outcome, a phenomenon called "sensitivity to initial conditions". The ubiquity of chaotic systems in nature is now widely recognized, and there is growing interest in the chaotic behavior of the brain at many levels, from the transmission of impulses along individual nerve fibers, to the functioning of neural networks, to general patterns of brain waves".

Robert Kane, The Significance of Free Will (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 129.

Hence, a single collapsing quantum probability can guide a network, you.

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