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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pedro should be thanked already for this new
Session, even as we welcome Andrew and Alexander. The depth of your work
facilitates rigorous discussion of serious philosophical as well as scientific
issues.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In Pedro's note of 2016.11.24 there is the
following:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Somehow, the
projection of brain "metastable dynamics" (Fingelkurts) to higher
dimensionalities could provide new integrative possibilities for information
processing. And that marriage between topology and dynamics would also pave the
way to new evolutionary discussions on the emergence of the "imagined present"
of our minds."</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What Pedro calls here "the marriage between
topology and dynamics" reminds one of the 'eternal' discussion of whether
geometry or energy (dynamics) is more fundamental in the universe. I just
suggest that there are alternative terms to focus on and describe the
interaction between topology and dynamics that are more - dynamic, and make an
emergence a more logical consequence of that interaction.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joseph</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>