In fact, it is one of the key issues to be dealt with when learning about technology and adopting its use. No amount of information can prod a resister into adopting something when the resister has good, valid reasons to maintain the status quo - one of which is to keep the discomfort level fairly low. I am rather fascinated by the initial results of my research, and I intend to continue to explore affective barriers to adoption for part of my dissertation. Thus, I realize I need to get into a whole new area of the psychology literature, and I need to do it fairly soon. The study of neurons also leads to the study of neural networks and the whole field of connectionism.
Neural nets can function with incomplete information.
Here, information is distributed and redundant, just as in the brain. Well, I wasn't quite sure. That was a rude awakening - just about the time I thought I understood psychology pretty well. However, in retrospect, I cannot argue with Roschelle, or with Sylwester, or with the neural network gurus. I've also played around enough with evolution of life games on the computer to know that it really doesn't take much to make a self-organizing system work.