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Thanks guys; atyy, that was exactly what I needed.

Are complex cells in the brain physically different from simple cells or is the difference in their function/role?

I shall now quote page 304 of 'The Emperor's New Mind' by 'Roger Penrose' (1999 publication), he is commenting on the double slit experiment: Individual particles DO act in accordance with the probabilities of interference, which is one of the key aspects of the quantum world.

Check out this YouTube video, I watched it only yesterday and I think it'll answer your question. It's 50 minutes, but well worth it!

Thanks for the reply, berkeman. This is for a personal project. I'm actually trying to get some fundamentals down before I attempt to create some frameworks; I played World of Goo recently and wondered whether I could produce some similar, although simpler, structures.Thinking about it, would...

Hi all, Okay, so the problem. Say we have a bar fixed to a horizontal surface by a hinge, at the end of the bar is a weight, which is fixed so that it cannot move. The bar is lifted to some angle \theta and let go of. I'm ignoring air resistance and the weight of the bar. I'm trying to...