Fractal and chaotic dynamics in nervous systems.
The chaotic aspects of brain structure and dynamics have been discussed. The relation of chaos to fractal processes in the brain from the neurosystems level down to the molecule has been explored. It is found that chaos appears to play an integral, though not necessarily exclusive role in function at all levels of organization from the neurosystems to the molecular and quantum levels. An interesting consequence involving the possible interface between chaotic dynamics and quantum physics has been discussed because of its potential significance is resolving several of the most intractable conceptual problems to do with computability, the brain and the mind (Blakemore and Greenfield, 1987; Hooper and Teresi, 1987; Rose, 1973; Searle, 1979; Penrose, 1986, 1989).
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D008433:Mathematics; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000502:physiology; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology