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Perhaps Hemon's success is due to its unclassifiability. Even to himself. Freed by uncertainty, strangeness.

Chialvo suggests that natural occurring neural networks (biological brains and such) pay more attention to un-accommodated situations (information) rather than well-known situations (or information). Because, if it was the other way, the system would tend to specialisation; in other words, loss of information, closure to the outside world.

by findmeaDoorIntoSummer on Wed Jun 25th, 2008 at 06:21:12 AM EST
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It's all about the amygdala.  Memory, flight or fight response, fear conditioning, sensory systems...  

"This is nothing compared to how Putin rigged Eurovision."
by poemless on Wed Jun 25th, 2008 at 11:54:14 AM EST
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