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Neuroscience for adolescents

Mentifex mentifex at scn.org
Thu Nov 19 19:48:05 EST 1998


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



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