Chaos in the mind

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at the interface between neuroscience and psychology.
at the interface between neuroscience and psychology.
One major role may be to guarantee creativity and  
One major role may be to guarantee creativity and  
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diversity of behavior. Chaos arising from combinatorial  
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diversity of behavior. The unconscious mind takes the flood
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search maybe important as a mechanism to arrive at novel  
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of information and simplifies, canalizes and categorizes it into ever-changing
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streams of patterns and packages. Chaos arising from combinatorial  
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search maybe important as a mechanism to control the steam of consciousness
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(at least the unconscious part), to arrive at novel  
solutions for cognitive problems, to find a way or trajectory  
solutions for cognitive problems, to find a way or trajectory  
to the best idea which matches the current situation,
to the best idea which matches the current situation,
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Peter Ashwin's has proposed "Cycling Chaos",
Peter Ashwin's has proposed "Cycling Chaos",
Mikhail Rabinovich a "Winnerless Competition" (WLC),
Mikhail Rabinovich a "Winnerless Competition" (WLC),
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and Ichiro Tsuda "Chaotic Itinerancy". Ashwin's notion
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and Ichiro Tsuda "Chaotic Itinerancy". They are all similar,
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of "Cycling Chaos" is very similar to Rabinovich's WLC
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the general idea is to connect different saddle points with  
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and Tsuda's Chaotic Itinerancy. The general idea is to  
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"cycling" trajectories.
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connect different saddle points with "cycling" trajectories.
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== Chaos and the point of view ==
== Chaos and the point of view ==

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