[MD] Mystics and Brains

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> [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.

I thought that scientists have designed models of stable chaotic systems that work
pretty much like the real thing. Haven't got the details at my fingertips but
I guess you know what I'm talking about. If I'm right, I think that shows
that complex stable chaotic systems like those of living things could have been
designed. Doesn't prove that they were, just that they might have been designed
by a higher intelligence.







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