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In article <f6xk02b078qO01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
kp@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Ken Presting) writes:

 > I agree that an AI need not model any particular person at a particular
 > time.  But since the error in a numerical model is cumulative over time
 > slices, it's not just the behavior of the system at a given time that
 > won't match, but also the general shape of the trajectories though the
 > state space of the system.  If a numerical model of the brain is claimed
 > to be accurate except for "noise", and therefore claimed to be conscious,
 > then it must be shown that what is called "noise" is irrelevant to
 > consciousness (or thinking).  Fluctuations that seem to be "noise" may
 > have significant consequences in a chaotic system.

Noise is to thinking as genetic mutations are to evolution.  Most
noise is counterproductive, but occasionally the noise leads to a
cognitive breakthrough.  That's called serendipity.

--Barry Kort