Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu!kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu!rob From: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Safe optimization Message-ID: <357@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> Date: 6 Jul 88 02:58:10 GMT References: <16271@brl-adm.ARPA> <408@proxftl.UUCP> <5368@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <877@garth.UUCP> Sender: news@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) Organization: Ohio State Univ, College of Engineering Lines: 18 In article <877@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes: > [...] When neurons form new connections (and they do) >is according to a predetermined plan or is it response from the environment== >does the brain have a finite number of discrete states? Finite number of braincells, each makes only a finite number of connections during its' liftime (planned or otherwise, I don't care) => finite number of available states => your ``=='' s.b. ``!='' >In article <5368@sdcrdcf.UUCP> markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar) writes: >>all realizable material devices are discrete. There are no such things >>as continuous devices (at least in this universe). > >What, no four dimensional space-time continuum? Irrelevant. Total number of atoms is finite. Rob Carriere