In a previous article, John Hicks <jwjhix at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> says:
> ****> "Arthur" == Arthur T Murray <uj797 at freenet.Victoria.BC.CA> writes:
> Arthur> Until dislodged by falsification, the Standard Model of the
> Arthur> Mind:
> Arthur> Associative tags cause the word "dog" to be reactivated and
> You are wrong because in many languages, French for example, the word
> "dog" is not used.
> --
> john hicks (jwjhix at cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
> So many chords,
> (Centre for Cognitive Science, so little time
> University of Edinburgh)
>http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~jwjhix
Thank you for the comment. Please realize that the English word
"dog" was used only as an example. Now the mind-diagram is modified
below to show how the idea of "dog" can activate both the word "dog"
in English, and the Japanese word "inu"--which happens to mean "dog":
Hearing Vision Concepts Volition Emotion Motor Output
/iiiiiii\ /!i!i!i!\ /YYYYYYYYYYYY\
| | ||||| || ||||||| | + | |||||||||||| |
| |d<-----||-|-----|-|---+ | |||||||||||| |
| |||||o| || | ___ | | + | |S|||||||||| |
| ||g|||| || / \--|-->+_ | |H|||||||||| |
| || |||| || <image> | / \ | |A|||||||||| |
| ||||||| || \___/ | <idea> __ | |K|||||||||| |
| ||| ||| || | \__/-------------->/ \ | |E|||R|||||| |
| |||i<---||---------|---+ ____ <fear>-|->*|||U|||||| |
| ||||n|| || | +------>/ \<---\__/ | |||||N|||P|| |
| ||||||u || | + / de- \---------|----->*|||E|| |
| |||||| || | + < ci- > | |||||||||T|| |
| ||||||| || | + \ sion /---------|--------->*|| |
| ||||||| || | + \____/ | |||||||||||| |
However, I grant you, Mr/Dr Hicks, that the brain-mind diagram is
over-simplified. Only a syntactic *tree*, and not a single idea-
fiber, should be activating either "dog" or "inu", but not both.
Likewise the depicted arrangement for "Motor Output" indicates
only the associative mechanism of selecting a pre-learned pattern
from the motor repertoire, without displaying the complex involvement
of the cerebellum -- whose function I (Arthur) will never be capable
of understanding with my non-mathematical brain, even though on
16.AUG.1974 I purchased "The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine" (1967)
by my scientific hero Eccles and his colleagues Ito and Szentagothai.
