Dr. F. Frank LeFever "flefever at ix.netcom.com" on 3.jul.1998: [...]
> Just to steer this OUTRAGEOUSLY OFF-TOPIC thread back a bit closer to
> neuroscience: a smattering of Greek and Latin makes neuroanatomical
> terms into something more than arbitrary "nonsense words" or "codes"
> and thereby easier to remember.
...and makes many disciplines diaphanous to the inspecting eye
of a strong intellect schooled in Latin and Greek, whereas often
the jargon and termini technici of a field serve to intimidate
those who would fain enter but soon abandon all hope in fear of...
> For ex., antidromic, saltatory, thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus,
> hippocampus, cornu Ammonis, indusium griseum, fasciculus retroflexus,
> cortex, corpus callosum, etc., etc., etc...
...beautiful words instantly grokkable to the classics scholar, who
enjoys a "virtual IQ" jump of several standard deviations by dint
of "dead" languages and who dares troll for the superintelligent
to retrace the pathways of "Eureka!" and to hark unto Shakespeare:
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.
> F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
> NYNG (also, Linguistics Section, NY Academy of Sciences)
<PRE>
/^^^^^^^^^^^\ The Architecture of a Robot Brain /^^^^^^^^^^^\
/visual memory\ semantic ________ / auditory \
| /--------|-------\ memory / syntax \ |episodic memory|
| | recog-|nition | \________/---|-------------\ |
| ___|___ | | flush-vector| | _______ | |
| /image \ | __|___ ___V___ | /stored \ | |
| / percept \ | /deep \------/lexical\----|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /---|---/concepts\----/concepts \---|--\ of words/ |
| \_______/ | \________/ \_________/ | \_______/ </PRE>