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  • By Liz Greene
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Among its many
peculiarities, the human brain has a habit of not responding in the same way to
identical inputs. This may be due to the fact that our eyes and ears are noisy
instruments, or because signals move in a stochastic fashion from neuron to
neuron. It may also simply be a matter of context.    

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