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New site suggests that multivalued logic is the theory behind brain microcircuits

Dirk Wessels icircle at xs4all.nl
Tue Sep 8 06:52:55 EST 1998


david_olmsted at my-dejanews.com wrote:

> The great difference between multivalued logic and binary logic is
> that
> multivalued logic uses analog values which can be modified by various
> adaptive elements such as multiplication factors (weights).

Sorry for misunderstanding the presentation on your website, whereso
many binary logical components were mentioned, that I actually started
to believe that it was the idea that you tried to present. Maybe a hint
that
the presentation of the information on the website might give a false
impression
(sometimes).
I do have some experience with "multivalued logic" in the form of
(simulated) analog neural networks and fuzzy logic. And was thinking
that there was something very different on your website, but I do
see now that the idea (I hope that I am correct this time) is more like
a more
general approach of what was already understood.
Yet I still wonder how the brain reconfigures the neural networks in
such a way that it alters the respond on a signal without actually
affecting the memory we have of the signal, and how emotion is
connected with that signal. My brain leaves me sometimes wondering
what unexpected emotions a certain signals may bring. :-)

Greetings,
    Dirk




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