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From: mentifex@scn.org (SCN User)
Subject: Re: language development-infant
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David G. Mitchell deserves a response (below) to his objection:

> Arthur T. Murray <ba672@lafn.org> wrote:
>
>> Thanks.  Your initial article was an invitation for my posting of
>> details of a theory of mind in newsgroups germane to linguistics.

> Is there anything you _don't_ regard as an invitation
> to post your picture yet one more nauseating time?

Please consider the rationales in descending order of importance:

1.  The purpose of this never-before-seen-in-history worldwide fo-
rum is the exchange of ideas in an atmosphere of free speech.

2.  Ideas suppressed in traditional forums will not here be silenced.

3.  Antipathy to the unexamined message forces the issue of its truth.

4.  It is easier to react against than to originate a theory of AI.

5.  Since the Minsky-McCarthy Newell-Simon "founding fathers" AI
conference at Dartmouth in 1956, the long wait may now be over.

6.  The Mentifex diagram of the public-domain theory of mind is
little larger than a signature but epitomizes 14 years of work.

7.  Many germane posts cry out for a repetition of this message:

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Concepts Interrelating With Words /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\   interassociative ________     /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\  memory  / syntax \   |episodic memory|
|      |  recog-|nition |          \________/<--|-------------\ |
|   ___|___     |      _V__flush-vector|  spiral|    _______  | |
|  /image  \    |     /core\        ___V___ loop|   /engrams\ | |
| / percept \   |    /"self"\<-----/lexical\<---|--/ "you"   \| |
| \ engrams /<--|-->/ "self" \--->/nonverbal\---|->\   "I"   /  |
|  \_______/    |   \ "other" )<--\concept- /<--|---\"I"    /   |
|               |    \"other"/---->\router /--->|--->\"you"/    |
|               |     \_____/       \_____/     |     \___/     |

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