Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/06

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Subject: [Leica] Evelvating the status of signal
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 21:29:32 -0600
 
> The brain is a pattern recognition device.  Throw random data at it and it
> will strive to recognize a pattern.  In fact, it is such a successful
> pattern recognition device that in response to random data, it generates
> patterns as hypotheses of significance in that data.  The problem is that we
> treat these generated patterns as raw data, which they are not, which
> effectively short-circuits any attempts to separate signal from noise --
> since we have now elevated everything to the status of signal.


Well, on the LUG we have at least. <gg>

- --Mike