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From: ba672@lafn.org (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: Re: Models/theories in psychology
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Quoting a modicum of Oliver Sparrow <ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk> ...

> I suppose that carrying out research management - and its close
> relative, strategic planning - serve as rather a good model of the
> broader processes of science. In both, one is going through a
> conceptually-straightforward procedure.  [...]

...and thanking His Excellency for challenging the creative process,
we present for the first time a more detailed Mentifex mind-diagram:

    /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Syntax Strings Together a Thought /^^^^^^^^^^^\
   /visual memory\           ________   semantic   /  auditory   \
  |      /--------|-------\ / syntax \  memory    |episodic memory|
  |      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|-------------\ |
  |   ___|___     |       |     |flush-vector     |    _______  | |
  |  /image  \    |     __|__  / \  _______       |   /stored \ | |
  | / percept \   |    /     \/   \/ Verbs \------|->/ phonemes\| |
  | \ engrams /<--|-->/ Nouns \    \_______/      |  \ of words/  |
  |  \_______/    |   \_______/-------------------|-->\_______/   |

http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/ contains an original theory of mind
whose implementational and memetic progress can be tracked via Web.

Imagine! as in the song by John Lennon -- how a syntactic tree will
fire its nodes one by one to string together a sentence of thought.

In the vast cortical sheet of the brain, the "Nouns" and "Verbs" as
shown separately above for the sake of clarity, are interspersed in
the abstract (semantic) memory channel and associatively segregated.

Please note that this linguistic theory of the mind, although pain-
fully difficult to understand upon the initial mystifying encounter,
afterwards looks simple, inevitable and "Yes, of course!" recursive.

This new diagram, as created on 21.JAN.1997, is not under copyright
and may be reproduced for any purpose, but please send any hardcopy
to Project Mentifex; Post Office Box 31326; Seattle, WA 98103-1326.

