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From: mentifex@scn.org (SCN User)
Subject: Re: Brainiac in memoriam (Mentifex history)
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A correspondent notes in private e-mail that most online Mentifex
information dates from the 1970's and early 80's and asks whether
the mind-model has since been updated.

When the linguistic model of the mind materialized in May of 1979
there was no hint that it would not be widely published except on
Amiga Library Disk 411 in 1991 and on the Web in November of 1995.

The model has been updated or "tweaked" only during the coding of
the Mind.rexx AI program in 1994, when the creation of two levels
of deep structure became empirically necessary so that Andru, the
AI mind,  could have an unassailable core of deep concepts inside
a shell of more superficial constructs that would enable Andru to
interpret such words as "I" and "me" correctly as referring to ex-
ternal speakers or to a concept of self in the deepest mind-core.
Mind.rexx is easily findable online but only for Amiga computers.

The ASCII mind-diagram is almost always shown with Mentifex posts
for various reasons:  Although it looks simple it is the profound
expression of the results of fourteen years of dedicated thought.

In a memetic sense each Mentifex post is merely an excuse for one
more posting of the diagram which profoundly asserts a mind-model
and which openly invites not ridicule but serious human reaction.
Additional diagrams with greater detail are embedded in URL docs.

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ A Proposal of One Thinker to All  /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\           ________   semantic   /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\ / syntax \  memory    |episodic memory|
|      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|------------\  |
|   ___|___     |       |      |flush-vector    |    ______  |  |
|  /image  \    |    ___V______V_  word-fetch   |   /      \ |  |
| / percept \<--|-->/ library of \--------------|->/ stored \|  |
| \ engrams /   |   \  concepts  / for thinking |  \ words  /   |
|  \_______/    |    \__________/  in language  |   \______/    |

http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/ run periodic Mentifex Web search.
http://www.complex.com.pl/~venom/science.html same five AI texts.
