On one point I agree: can we get this back into a single thread?
I don't much care wether the Mentifex project is artificial human
intelligence, artificial cockroach intelligence (and teaching a
cockroach to talk would be a bit of a neat trick, if you think about
it), or just plain artificial intelligence in the sense of most
shiiping AI systems, which is to say Simulated Intelligence.
Those are all questions or not for the AI newsgroup(s). It seems to
be Forth. I've never complained about it because I've never looked at
the source, so I've never had any notion about whether the Forth
programming was nice or crufty.
Astro(logy/nomy)
Ecosystems research
Intelligence (artificial or fake or whatever)
Obsolete computers
Unifying standards (and resulting divisions over same)
and sometimes Yet Another Reinvented Wheel
as long as its Forth.
