Rapprochement of artificial intelligence and dynamics

It is proposed that continuous time is in effect discretized in the brain by dynamic pattern recognition mechanisms in neurons. Time discretization is required to support formal computations in continuous time systems consisting of a large number of components. The ability to perform formal computations is necessary if the system is to execute high level algorithms of the type used in present day artificial intelligence. The weakness of such algorithms is that they work efficiently only when the forms of patterns and objects presented to them are highly constrained. The dynamic mechanisms which discretize the brain's time line also serve to code patterns into constrained forms suitable for high level processing.