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From: ba672@lafn.org (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: Re: tiring of mentifex
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In a previous article Mr. Stephen B. Rondeau <sbr@coho.halcyon.com>
who as "SBR" is acknowledged in the Amiga Mind.rexx AI source code,
who donated to Project Mentifex the modem of all Mentifex AI posts,
who was drawn into complicity with the Mentifex Meme on 8.JAN.1994,
who gave facilities to Mentifex at NW AI Expo and UW Computer Fair,
who met my Fra Latona to whom the Mentifex enterprise is dedicated,
who served as a go-between for Mentifex AI and the Forth cadalysts,
who became a REXX expert by working for IBM as a software engineer,
who earned fame as the Amiga REXX columnist in "Scientific Amigan",
who volunteers free technical advice for posters in comp.lang.rexx,
who is one of those young Yuri Zhivago kind-hearted idealist types,
and who as the handsome, most eligible bachelor in Washington state
ought to be rearing children instead of designing AI robots, wrote:

> I've found that one has to accept people for what they are, rather
> than what one wants them to be. He will never be a researcher who
> follows the scientific method, but then there are very few AI
> researchers who follow it. There are many more qualified than he
> to talk about computer science, such as it is. But there are few
> who can hold a candle to his capacity to spam!

>>> /^^^^^^^^^^^\ 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  |   \_______/   |

