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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| ||| l | || ||||||| | / \ + \ / __+__ + | |||||U|||!|| |
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