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From: ba672@lafn.org (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: $$$ EASY AI MONEY $$$
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Yo!  College students in need of dough and readers of Doonesbury!

Voici une opportunite' unique dans l'histoire des hautes 'ecoles:

Cash in ere graduation on the COLLEGE DORMITORY WALL POSTER craze
by marketing your own copyrighted artwork of how the brain works:

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Syntax Strings Together a Thought /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\           semantic ________     /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\  memory  / syntax \   | speech stream |
|      |  recog-|nition |          \________/<--|-------------\ |
|   ___|___     |       |  flush-vector|        |    _______  | |
|  /image  \    |     __|___        ___V___     |   /stored \ | |
| / percept \   |    /deep  \<-----/lexical\<---|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /<--|-->/concepts\--->/concepts \---|->\ of words/  |
|  \_______/    |   \________/    \_________/   |   \_______/   |

Let the theme of your dreams be Edvard Munch's meme:  The Scream.
(It became a cultural icon; your wall poster can do even better.)

Doubt thou the stars are fire, but do not doubt your own destiny.
Draw up your first however-clumsy AI brain-design wall-poster and
Dewey-beats-Truman it by posting l'objet d'art in a public place.

Draw better versions, each a collector's item signed by yourself.
When you hit the right collage of fantasy and philosophy of mind,
run off a limited edition and sell some but hoard a few Hogarths.

In a retrospective on your career as an artist, history will note
that your COLLEGE DORM WALL POSTER caused a harmonic convergence.
It planted memes of the future in the minds of the builders of AI
and became a footnote/citation in the CD-ROMs of art and science.
