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by Kim_Bruning 1031 days ago
It would be unfortunate if our brains were actually non-deterministic. Chaos theory is about deterministic systems!

I'm pretty sure the brain is a chaotic system. Mostly because the other options are all <boring>.

Which behavior would you pick?

* static/equilibrium. (doesn't change over time)

* periodic (like a pendulum or sine wave)

* chaotic (unpredictable complex behavior, sensitive to initial conditions)

* stochastic (random noise, possibly subject to statistical analysis)

Only stochastic behavior is non-deterministic, and what we actually want is the chaotic behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory