HIMOSTHYLEDYNE - MACH

[alexis%yummy@gateway.mitre.org]

>>  ... dynamic, nets -- maybe chaotic ...

Actually that's an interesting thought.  Certainly dynamic networks are 
useful (meaning nets (necessarily with feedback) which converge to an orbit 
of period > 1) as are bifurcations and all that {I mean, biological systems 
do it, so it *MUST* be important :-) }.

But what about chaos and strange attractors et al.?  For those of you who
don't believe Turing and think non-deterministic computing engines buy you 
some computing power (Richard are you out there?) I suppose it's a way of 
getting your non-determinism into the system ..., but I mean really, is 
a *chaotic-neural-network* worth anything?

alexis wieland