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Arthur Murray (ba672@lafn.org) wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^       LAFFIN?

  HOW'S IT STEPPIN' ART ?    HOW'S LAWRENCE WELK DOIN THESE DAYS?

: In the Standard Model theory of mind for artificial intelligence,
: natural language understanding is the process of parsing auditory
: input so as to assign new associative-tag relationships among the
: conceptual matrix of the brain-mind, as depicted in the following
: public-domain ASCII diagram.  Further information is available at
: http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/ original public-domain archive or
: http://www.complex.com.pl/~venom/science.html WWW site in Poland.

THIS POST PROVES THAT SENTIENCE IS NOT REQUIRED IN ORDER TO BE FUNNY

      DEFINITELY THE TRANS-TIME ORIGIN OF "THE POLISH JOKE"

: Note that the conceptual mini-grids are shown twice below,  first
: as a random arrangement sprawling across the vast cortical sheet,
: then as a subset of conceptual neurons under the tight control of
: Chomskyan transformational grammar structures generating thought.

: Please color-code the intermingled concept-grids before printing.

:   /^^^^^^^^^^^\ concept-fibers ganged together as /^^^^^^^^^^^\
:  /  -infancy-  \ 3 mini-grids of semantic memory /  -infancy-  \
: |               | including "grandmother" cells |               |
: | episodic      |  * $ H-----H * * H $ H * H $  | episodic      |
: | visual        |  * $ H $ * H *-* H $ H * H $  | auditory      |
: | memory        |  * $ H $ * H * * H $-------$  | memory        |
: | recognitions  |  * $---$ * H * * H $ H * H $  | activations   |
: |      /------- |  * $ H $ * H-------------H $  | at            |
: |      |        |  * $ H $-----------$ H * H $  | multiple      |
: |      +------- |  * $ H $ * H * * H---H * H $  | random        |
: |      |        |  *--                     H $  | intervals     |
: |      |        |  * $     MIND  MAZE      H $  | such          |
: |      +------- |  * $                     H $  | as:           |
: |   ___|___     |  * $ H $ * H *---------* H $  |    ________   |
: |  /image  \    |  * $ H $ *---* * H $ H * H $  |   / stored \  |
: | / percept \<--|----->H $ * H * * H $ H * H----|->/ H-e-l-e-n\ |
: | \ of Helen/   |  * $ H $ * H * * H $ H * H $  |  \ phonemes / |
: |  \_______/    |  * $ H $ * H * * H $ H * H $  |   \________/  |
: |               |                               |               |
: |  -maturity-   | language ________ structures  |  -maturity-   |
: |      /--------|-------\ / syntax \            |               |
: |      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|------------\  |
: |   ___|___     |       |    |flush-vector      |    ______  |  |
: |  /image  \    |    ___V____V___  word-fetch   |   /      \ |  |
: | / percept \<--|-->/ conceptual \--------------|->/ stored \|  |
: | \ engrams /   |   \ mini-grids / for thinking |  \ words  /   |
: |  \_______/    |    \__________/  in language  |   \______/    |


CHECK OUT THE LIGHT-BULB-JOKE GENERATOR AT        
 http://www.complex.com.pl/~venom/blubkrad.html WWW site in Poland.

17  "you mean this whole place is being generated to contain ONE MIND?!"
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