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From: mentifex@scn.org (SCN User)
Subject: Re: Mindlink Brain to Robot
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:29:38 GMT
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In a previous article, rocky.persaud@utoronto.ca (Rocky Persaud) says:

> ba672@lafn.org (Arthur T. Murray) wrote:
>>
>> Please consider how the motor options of an infant organism first
>> operate by random chance, as when human babies wave their arms or
>> legs spontaneously, thus learning intellectually that they indeed
>> possess motor options.  Knowledge of motor options is passed down
>> the human or MACHINE mind-grid from infancy to maturity in such a
>> way that the motor memories remain DYNAMIC; that is, motor memory
>> engrams CONTROL the individual flexors of the output motorium and
>> unavoidably CAUSE motor events when the sum totality of voluntary
>> thinking about motor options exceeds motor activation thresholds.
>>
>> Your task, should you persist in your obstinacy to build the best
>> robot ever devised by human ingenuity or folly, is first to grok:

> And *your* task is to vigourously attack your habitual use
> of technobabble jargon.  C'mon--"engrams"?
> Get rid of that Scientology meme.  "Totality"?  "Motorium"?
> The clearer your message, the more successful it propagates.

Thank you, Mr. Rocky Persaud, for the constructive criticism, but
please do not regard the time-honored word "engram" as a partisan
meme.  The "output motorium," as opposed to the "input sensorium,"
is a beautiful word to refer to the entire motor musculature.

Your astute observation is otherwise oh so true and much appreciated.

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Mechanism of Memetic Replication  /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /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  |   \______/    |

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