F. Frank LeFever (flefever at ix.netcom.com) on 17.jul.1998 writes:
> In <35a79d51.0 at news.victoria.tc.ca> uj797 at victoria.tc.ca> (Arthur T. Murray) writes:
> 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/ |
>>| \_______/ | \_______/-------------------|---\_______/ |
> I missed the beginning of this joke, having been in Budapest for a
> meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society.
The next time you are at a neuroscience meeting, ask some of the
senior people whether they think that it is a joke. Look at the
http://bri.medsch.ucla.edu/archives/hnl/msg98012.htm Society for
the History of the Neurosciences at the Brain Research Institute.
> It IS a joke, isn't it?
No, it is a serious phenomenon which is about to roil your life:
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.
> [...] Shouldn't some effort be made to construct diagrams
> reflecting some of what we know about REAL cortical relationships?
> That is, if artificial INTELLIGENCE is the aim.
> F. LeFever
You may need to retrain yourself to think more philosophically:
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/webcyc.html Encyclopedia Mentifica