Grossberg's worry about the plausibility of "rewiring" seems to apply to the very literal rewiring that might be done by a neural electrician.
To think that the physics department will buy the music department a new gigabit router, and pay to rewire the concert halls with fibre, seems like pipe dreaming.
Grainger suggests that rewiring is implausible and unimplementable.
It is perhaps worth mentioning, however, that this rewrite system is not confluent on planar circuits because of the restrictions on rewiring moves on the two units.
Judging from neurological exams, rewiring of this muscle is not a common feature of autism, but it does occur in some idiopathic cases, as it did in the thalidomide cases.
Was this what he had in mind when he rewired the phone system in his hometown at age 13?
In the figure we show several values of the probability of extinction, e, in networks with different rewiring probabilities.
The issue of rewiring is quite orthogonal to the question of feedback.
