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dc waterman dwaterman at net1plus.com
Mon May 24 20:56:45 EST 1999


Which part didn't I grasp?  I repeat your own quote:
>>    "[Which can] generate action potentials..."   An "action potential" in
a neuron is a potential which crosses a threshold and causes a change in
state from non-firing to firing or vice-versa. This is well documented in
both biological and artificial systems and is a requirement for the correct
operation of the system.  Removing the mathematics or considering the values
as infinitesimal doesn't change the operation of the "Physically-real
dynamicism."  Derivatives are merely a way to approximate instantaneous
values. What part of this is "nonsensical"??

Regardless of that, the system changes state at the neural level and I
submit that it is therefore stateful.  I respect your difference of opinion
although, in this thread, you have offered nothing scientific to support it
other than the system is dynamic. Perhaps you can direct me to the on-going
thread you referred to in your reply...

/dave waterman, PhD








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