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From: ba672@lafn.org (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: Re: Time Clouds in Natural Language Understanding
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Sons of Poland in the USA are fiercely proud to be wholly or even
partially Polish.  We are proud that the  ne plus ultra  of piano
music flowed from the pen not of Beethoven the German or of Liszt
the Hungarian, but of Frederic Chopin from our ancestral homeland.

Yesterday's post, "Time Clouds in Natural Language Understanding,"
was a hotheaded emotional response to a slur on the Polish honor.
Verbum sapienti:  Majus mentificamus ad majorem Poloniae gloriam.

An astute scholar has enquired by private electronic mail whether
the mini-grids of the diagram below represent the tripartite link-
ing of concepts in the sentence, "Bears eat honey," and has asked
for an explanation of the characters used to compose the diagram.

The Amiga (un otro punto de onore!) keyboard characters (*, $, H)
were chosen simply for their verticality of display, so that they
would clearly represent long neuronal fibers, each so redundantly
containing a concept that each  concept  would enjoy  a massively
parallel existence as a mini-grid of logically identical neurons.
The hyphen (---) symbols represent (orthogonal) associative tags.

Any attempt to show the tripartite linkage of three concept grids
into an embedded idea would woefully overcomplicate this diagram,
but any savvy graphic artist, Polish or not Polish, is welcome to
take on the challenge (kai to mega kudos) of portraying the mind.


  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ 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 * * H $ H * H $  | intervals     |
|      |        |  * $ H $ * H *-* H $ H * H $  | such          |
|      +------- |  * $ H---------------H * 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  |   \______/    |

http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/ original public-domain archive or
http://www.complex.com.pl/~venom/science.html Web site in Poland.

Chopin Copernicus Curie Walesa Wojtyla:  "tin' heroa keladesomen?"

