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From: uj797@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: Mind.rexx Brain Array
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 Mind.rexx brain array 
     Although a new 4.OCT.1994 version of the Amiga Mind.rexx AI
 program is now up on various Seattle-area Amiga bulletin boards
 (including this Amiga Images BBS at 206-248-2125), the rexxmind
 does little more than take in an English sentence from the user
 and issue a response spoken with the built-in Amiga voice.
 
    Now some serious new programming will be done to build up
 the not-even-Forrest-Gump IQ of the Amiga rexxmind.  For example,
 the ARexx array "fiber.n" controls words which Mind.rexx strings
 together into spoken English sentences.  These concept elements
 are called "fiber.n" (where "n" is an identifying digit) because
 in the AI theory of Fish 411:Mind they correspond to gangs of
 cortical brain fibers which hold a concept in the brain-mind.
 
    An empirical problem is developing because Mind.rexx must learn
 when the different words "I" and "you" both refer to the concept
 of "self" of the rexxmind:  "I" when sending messages and "you"
 when receiving messages.  Therefore we are about to establish a
 more primitive array of deep-structure and utterly primal,
 nonverbal concepts, such as a lurking, massive concept of "self"
 in the mind, and other concepts which, when activated, will in
 turn activate their related verbal concepts in the fiber.n array.
 
    The question for ARexx programmers and Amiga-user neuroscientists
 is, What should the array of deep, primitive concepts be called in
 REXX?  Would the array "psi.x" be too flip, too allusive to (unproven)
 "psi" (paranormal) phenomena?  Such are the concerns of programmers
 busy making minds in Project Mentifex, and you, too, may build a mind
 in your TV-room or computer lab by downloading Mind.rexx and
 re-fashioning the REXX code in your own image.  If you have questions
 or comments, please either respond directly to this post, or
 communicate via Internet with "mentifex@scn.org" in Seattle.  Thanks.
 

-- 
  Arthur T. Murray                       c/o Project Mentifex
  uj797@freenet.victoria.bc.ca           mentifex@scn.org
  Creating Mind.rexx in Amiga REXX       Post Office Box 31326
  based on Amiga Lib. Disk No. 411       Seattle, WA 98103-1326 USA
