The great sheet of the neocortex in the human brain may look con-
voluted--Nature's way of cramming in more ads per issue--but log-
ic dictates that we view the six Laminae (Latin for "layers") of
the laminated neocortex as a flat mindgrid which would encompass
about fifty square centimeters if it were actually laid out flat.
So how does a multi-tiered, towering superstructure of Chomskyan
syntax take up residence within the logically flat neuromindgrid?
It is by means of the ASSOCIATIVE TAG, which permits us flatland-
ers (flatliners?) to construct cathedrals of thought in our mind-
grids. Please follow Web links to garner an understanding of AI:
/^^^^^^^^^^^\ A Hierarchy in the Flat Neocortex /^^^^^^^^^^^\
/visual memory\ ________ semantic / auditory \
| /--------|-------\ / syntax \ memory |episodic memory|
| | recog-|nition | \________/------------|-------------\ |
| ___|___ | | |flush-vector | _______ | |
| /image \ | __|__ / \ _______ | /stored \ | |
| / percept \ | / \/ \/ Verbs \------|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /---|---/ Nouns \ \_______/ | \ of words/ |
| \_______/ | \_______/-------------------|---\_______/ |
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/webcyc.html -- the first-ever Webcyc
-- is logically similar to the flat neocortex holding hierarchies
of linguistic structure, because both the flat neocortex and flat
file of the Webcyc Mentifex function as an associative hierarchy.