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From: mentifex@scn.org (SCN User)
Subject: Re: Science at Flashpoint
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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 16:56:58 GMT
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In a previous article, jsalsman@bovik.org (James Salsman) says:

> uj797@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Arthur T. Murray) wrote:
>>
>> the kindred disciplines of neuroscience, linguistics, robotics
>> and artificial intelligence are aquiver with the agony of kairos.

> Who is kairos and what are the symptoms?

> Thanks.

> Sincerely,
> :James Salsman
 
The Greek word "KAIPOC" ("kairos") means "the right time" or "the
critical moment" -- as we sense now in the Gotterdammerung of our
homo sapiens era approaching the dawn of post-human intelligence.

To say that science is at a flashpoint is either to hype the fact
if it is true or to broadcast a self-fulfilling prophecy if it is
almost but not quite true.  In each of the kindred disciplines we
join a headlong rush towards a grand unifying theory of the mind.


           There is a tide in the affairs of men,
           Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
           Omitted, all the voyage of their life
           Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

    
  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Integrative Multidisciplinary AI  /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\           ________   semantic   /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\ / syntax \  memory    |episodic memory|
|      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|------------\  |
|   ___|___     |       |    |flush-vector      |    ______  |  |
|  /image  \    |    ___V____V___  word-fetch   |   /      \ |  |
| / percept \<--|-->/ conceptual \--------------|->/ stored \|  |
| \ engrams /   |   \ mini-grids / for thinking |  \ words  /   |
|  \_______/    |    \__________/  in language  |   \______/    |

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http://www.complex.com.pl/~venom/science.html Web site in Poland.
