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Can brains generate random numbers?

Dynamical Systems 2015-06-11 v1 Numerical Analysis Neurons and Cognition

Abstract

Motivated by EEG recordings of normal brain activity, we construct arbitrarily large McCulloch-Pitts neural networks that, without any external input, make every subset of their neurons fire in some iteration (and therefore in infinitely many iterations).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1208.6451,
  title  = {Can brains generate random numbers?},
  author = {Vašek Chvátal and Mark Goldsmith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6451},
  year   = {2015}
}
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