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From: ba672@lafn.org (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: Mentifex * Van Dyke CS Brown University
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A most gentlemanly admonishment came from Mr. Neil W. Van Dyke:

>>> /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Top-down Overview; Details on WWW /^^^^^^^^^^^\
   /visual memory\           ________   abstract   /  auditory   \
  |      /--------|-------\ / syntax \  channel   |memory channel |
  |      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|-------------\ |
  |   ___|___     |       |    |flush-vector      |    _______  | |
  |  / image \    |    ___V____V___  word-fetch   |   /stored \ | |
  | /traces or\<--|-->/ conceptual \--------------|->/ phonemes\| |
  | \ engrams /   |   \ mini-grids / for thinking |  \ of words/  |
  |  \_______/    |    \__________/  in language  |   \_______/   |

> Mr. Murray, I encourage you to prepare a paper on your idea and
> submit it to a refereed AI journal or conference.

1979:  Artificial Intelligence.
       Rejected by Daniel Bobrow as "speculative."
1979:  Cognitive Science.
       Rejected by Roger Schank as "inappropriate."
1980:  Speculations in Science and Technology.
       Rejected by William Honig as "not in the hard sciences."

1991:  Amiga Library Disk #411.  Public domain release.
1992:  CD-UniBase (tm).  Public domain release.
1994:  The AI CD-ROM Revision 3.  Public domain release.
1995:  http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/  Public domain release.

> Until your writings are filtered through an academic publication
> process, I can't tell whether it's worth my time to try to
> understand them.

       There is a tide in the affairs of men,
       Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
       Omitted, all the voyage of their life
       Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

> Regretfully, your repeated posts saying the same thing have grown
> so numerous that I feel it necessary to have my newsreader to ignore
> all posts from you.

Such action is a rational decision on your part, just as it is a
rational decision on my part to continue posting details + diagram
in order to reach the thousands-per-day of newcomers to the Internet.

> -- 
> Neil W. Van Dyke | nwv@cs.brown.edu |
> http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/nwv/

  Arthur T. Murray | mentifex@scn.org |
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