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From: mentifex@scn.org (SCN User)
Subject: Your Robotics Newsletter
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 21:58:45 GMT
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[Please publish in your newsletter or robot construction manual.]

The robot in your future will make decisions of its own free will
based on the emerging Standard Model of the Mind for AI Robotics:

  Hearing    Vision    Concepts Volition Emotion   Motor Output
 /iiiiiii\  /!i!i!i!\                             /YYYYYYYYYYYY\
| ||||||| || ||||||| |   +                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| || | ___ | |   +                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  /   \  |   +                       | |S|||||||||| |
| ||||||| || <image>-|-->+_                      | |H|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  \___/  |  /  \                     | |A|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||         | <idea>               __   | |K|||||||||| |
| | ||||| ||         |  \__/-------------->/  \  | |E|||R|||||| |
| |d<-----||---------|---+        ____    <fear>-|->*|||U|||||| |
| ||||o|| ||         |   +------>/    \<---\__/  | |||||N|||P|| |
| ||g|||| ||         |   +      / de-  \---------|----->*|||E|| |
| || |||| ||         |   +     <  ci-   >        | |||||||||T|| |
| ||||||| ||         |   +      \ sion /---------|--------->*|| |
| ||||||| ||         |   +       \____/          | |||||||||||| |

Futuristic technologies such as Cog, Cyc, SOAR, TNGS and Mentifex
are racing to create the freethinking mind that each robot needs.

As you develop skill in the mechanical design or software control
of a robot, keep in mind the eventual embodiment of a robot mind.

Run periodic Web searchs though HotBot or other search engines to
track the runaway memes of Mentifex AI neuromancing the Internet.
