Our data (http://www.plosone.org/doi... see http://brembs.net/spontaneous for context) suggest that brains contain nonlinear systems with variable gain, allowing them to generate more or less variability in behavior, according to circumstance. You could call it a combination of noise (Newtonian and/or Quantum) with an evolved (i.e., adaptive) chaotic amplifier. This allows...
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- Björn Brembs