On: "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879)

[HarHarVeryFunny]

Sure - not everything that looks random is random. How about Stephan Wolfram's finite automata "Rule 30" for another example.

But anyways, neurons don't even APPEAR to be acting randomly - they appear to obeying the laws of chemistry, and behaving in meticulously studied and well understood ways.

[Kim_Bruning → HarHarVeryFunny]

Definitely.

It's the behavior an emergence level or two up that can appear to be quite chaotic again.