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From: mentifex@scn.org (SCN User)
Subject: Re: Electric Lights & Problem Solving (Was: Cyc and MISTIC (Was: MISTIC: 350,008 Item Pairs))
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 07:14:24 GMT
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Although the  MISTIC  idea of assembling a few million statements
of fact and then letting a Cyc mind evolve from them is exciting,
Project Mentifex offers an alternative where mundane knowledge of
the world builds up in the following way.  Notice the idea-fiber:

  Hearing    Vision    Concepts Volition Emotion   Motor Output
 /iiiiiii\  /!i!i!i!\                             /YYYYYYYYYYYY\
| ||||||| || ||||||| |   +                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| || | ___ | |   +                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  /   \  |   +                       | |S|||||||||| |
| ||||||| || <image>-|-->+_                      | |H|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  \___/  |  /  \                     | |A|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||         | <idea>               __   | |K|||||||||| |
| | ||||| ||         |  \__/-------------->/  \  | |E|||R|||||| |
| |d<-----||---------|---+        ____    <fear>-|->*|||U|||||| |
| ||||o|| ||         |   +------>/    \<---\__/  | |||||N|||P|| |
| ||g|||| ||         |   +      / de-  \---------|----->*|||E|| |
| || |||| ||         |   +     <  ci-   >        | |||||||||T|| |
| ||||||| ||         |   +      \ sion /---------|--------->*|| |
| ||||||| ||         |   +       \____/          | |||||||||||| |

In the Mentifex AI mind model, tens of thousands of concepts each
have not just one such neuronal fiber as their brain locus, but a
gang of such fibers for massively parallel redundancy.  A MISTIC-
style fact is entered as a statement in natural language, such as
"Bears eat honey."  A relationship then exists among the concepts
as a group of associations clustered around the verb "eat."  From
each of the three conceptual fiber-gangs, though, other relation-
ships branch off in a rich  nexus  of everyday knowledge, such as
"Humans eat honey," and "Humans hunt bears."  These concepts rest
upon basic sensory memory data of an entire ontology of the mind.
