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From: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Safe optimization
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Date: 6 Jul 88 02:58:10 GMT
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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