Gene Douglas <genedoug at prodigy.net> in bionet.neuroscience:
> 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:
[...]
Starting with the above cited "Q" many neurocognoscenti have
postulated the existence of a "semantic memory" necessary for
solving the "binding problem" among the "episodic memories."
The Mentifex mind model tries to solve the Binding Problem:
/^^^^^^^^^^^\ Syntax Strings Together a Thought /^^^^^^^^^^^\
/visual memory\ ________ semantic / auditory \
| /--------|-------\ / syntax \ memory |episodic memory|
| | recog-|nition | \________/------------|-------------\ |
| ___|___ | | |flush-vector | _______ | |
| /image \ | __|__ / \ _______ | /stored \ | |
| / percept \ | / \/ \/ Verbs \------|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /---|---/ Nouns \ \_______/ | \ of words/ |
| \_______/ | \_______/-------------------|---\_______/ |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/ The Cyborg Syllabus
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ Artificial Intelligence for Robots