ivester@cholula.UUCP (01/29/85)
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Artificial Intelligence - Lesson One of the Mentifex Tutorial.
The human brain-mind is a stimulus-response system.
The stimuli are sensory input and the responses are motor output.
The channels of input and output flow in parallel but in opposite directions.
The channels of sensory and motor memory begin as tabula rasa - a clean slate.
The parallel memory channels fill up gradually between infancy and old age.
Any point on the parallel mindgrid corresponds to a point in time.
An associative tag connects all simultaneous points along the mindgrid.
Mind emerges where associative tags converge to form conceptual hierarchies.
The abstract memory channel inserts intelligence between stimulus and response.
- Arthur T. Murray
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Seattle, Washington 98l33steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) (01/30/85)
> > The human brain-mind is a stimulus-response system. > The channels of sensory and motor memory begin as tabula rasa - a clean slate. > Hmm, have you read "On Verbal Behavior" by B.F. Skinner? Besides the excellent paper Noam Chomsky wrote more than 20 years ago arguing against this position, an article in this month's (Jan. 1985) Scientific American drives yet another nail into the coffin of behavorist models of language. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 109 Torrey Pine Terr. Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 ihnp4!pesnta -\ fortune!idsvax -> scc!steiny ucbvax!twg -/
gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell) (01/31/85)
Before I posted this, rn asked me: This program posts news to hundreds of machines around the world. Are you sure you want to do this? After articles like the "Mentifex Tutorial", I wish this was moderated, so that hundreds of machines and their users around the world don't have to be subjected to the ravings of such folks. Any takers? gary cottrell (allegra or seismo)!rochester!gary (UUCP) gary@rochester (ARPA)
dpb@philabs.UUCP (Paul Benjamin) (01/31/85)
> Before I posted this, rn asked me: This program posts news to hundreds of > machines around the world. Are you sure you want to do this? > > After articles like the "Mentifex Tutorial", I wish this was moderated, > so that hundreds of machines and their users around the world don't have > to be subjected to the ravings of such folks. Any takers? > > gary cottrell (allegra or seismo)!rochester!gary (UUCP) > gary@rochester (ARPA) -------------------------------------------------------- Unfortunately, to insure the unimpeded flow of ideas, we must put up with uninformed (perhaps facetious?) ideas like the "Mentifex Tutorial". The hard test of any idea in AI is to produce a working program which embodies that idea. It would be extremely interesting to see a working model of the concepts in the "Mentifex Tutorial". Paul Benjamin {ihnp4,decvax}!philabs!dpb (UUCP)