Can somebody explain what that is, for us adolescents?
Mentifex wrote in message <36545c2c.0 at news.victoria.tc.ca>...
:Dr. F. Frank LeFever <flefever at ix.netcom.com> mentioned obiter dictu:
: [...]
:
:> First, a general observation: we have often seen (in this newsgroup)
:> people who know a little bit about something (often scattered and
:> poorly-understood terms and facts) assume that others know even less,
:> adolescent "big insights" proclaimed naively (to others who had and
:> worked through such "insights" long ago) as if it were a private
:> revelation, etc., etc. [ ... mucho lefeverismo esnippado ... ]
:
: As someone who posted a "big insight" on its 17nov1997 anniversary
: (see "Nolarbeit Theory Journal: 17 NOV 1978"), I do not claim
: species-wide originality in discovering the "semantic memory"
: because what's-his-name Quinlan/Quillian is credited with it.
:
: Rather, in the course of my now failed and moribund Mentifex AI
: project (q.v. at http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ ), I worked out
: the internal logical structure of the semantic memory channel:
:
: Hearing Vision The Evolution of Concepts Motor Output
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