[MD] Mystics and Brains

[Case]

[Platt]
If you could expand on the difference between stable patterns and designed
patterns I'd appreciate it. Cannot designed patterns be flexible in the face
of outside disturbances, such as those that follow fuzzy logic?

[Case]
There are lots of stabile chaotic patterns, the jet stream, the gulf stream
hurricanes, the spot on Jupiter, crystals, snow flakes, the price of tea in
China and pretty much every living thing. If you tried to design mechanical
systems to mimic any of these it would break down or require the input of
lots of energy from outside the system. These natural systems exist because
they are responses to the conditions that exist around them. They take in
energy from their surroundings, convert it to different types of energy and
away they go.