Comments on the Robot Mind.forth PDAI Screen #1

Mentifex mentifex at scn.org
Thu Dec 17 16:13:20 EST 1998


Hidden in the whole idea of "loading" the old-fashioned "screens"
of the Mind.forth AI program is the not only nontrivial but down-
right fortunate reality that the Forth language prevents you from
writing spaghetti code and molds you into the wizard architect of
a structured program, as if you studied under Dijkstra and Knuth.

You will observe in the AI source code a gradual buildup not only
of an orderly program but also of a functional neuroarchitecture.

The Forth screens are organized into triads--groups of three.  If
you print Mind.forth out directly from its main Internet Web site

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/m-forth.html (11 pages)

you will notice that the second page (a triad of screens 3, 4, 5)
is concerned with setting up the Forth arrays of the AI mindgrid:

mindcore array psi{ }, English array uk{ }, auditory array ear{ }

and that the third page or triad deals with old and new concepts.
The triads of pages four and five receive and store sensory input.

Throughout the Forth screens you will see a bottom-up progression
from low-level operations up through the functionality of a mind,
all the way to the topmost and final level of the MIND Screen #29.


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