___                  _             ______        __
  / _ | __ _  ___ ____ (_)__  ___ _  /_  __/____ __/ /_ Given
 / __ |/  ' \/ _ `/_ // / _ \/ _ `/   / / / -_) \ / __/ 1) the waterfall
/_/ |_/_/_/_/\_,_//__/_/_//_/\_, /   /_/  \__/_\_\\__/  2) the illuminating gas
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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.