WATTERS Paul Andrew wrote:
>> Patrick Juola (patrick at gryphon.psych.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
> : No. "Non-linear" does not mean "chaotic"; almost all artificial
> : networks that have been built are composed of non-linear elements
> : (as linear networks don't scale to multiple layers -- obligatory
> : reference to Minsky and Papert (1969)).
>> No. Chaos _is_ non-linear. Freeman's (1987) model of the olfactory
> bulb was composed of chaotic elements which more closely
> approximated brain function than many other non-chaotic
> non-linear neural network models (IMHO).
not(chaotic -> non-linear => non-linear -> chaotic).
> : So you need to tighten up your mathematical models (and terminology)
> : considerably.
>> You need to broaden your reading considerably!
You might consider a course in logic and/or reading comprehension.
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