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 / _` | '_ ` _ \ / _` |_  / | '_ \ / _` | | __/ _ \ \/ / __|
| (_| | | | | | | (_| |/ /| | | | | (_| | | ||  __/>  <| |_
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      nothing to see here.         |___/  please move along.
Regardless of whether the input and output are digital, the analog nature of the network means the whole structure acts as a complex dynamical system. For this reason, the information processing going on has much more in common with physics than does conventional computing.