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For instance, when I am teaching a class, and I want to have something remembered by the students, I usually come up with an error and they point out, “You made an error, sir.” I say, “Oh yes, I made an error,” but they remember this much better than if I would not have made an error. And that is why I am convinced that an environment with a reasonable amount of noise may not be too bad / to achieve learning.

In the course of his absorbing discussion, Schrodinger draws our atten-
tion to two different basic “mechanisms” by which orderly events can be
produced: “The statistical mechanism which produces order from disorder
and the . . . [other] one producing ‘order from order’.”

There are no such things as self-organizing systems