First of all, we went in and performed a shunt.
We shut off all circulation to the SVO() module and
we routed everything through a new Ruminate() module.
Then we administered electroconvulsive shock in order
to determine if the Robot AI Mind was still operating:
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/jsaimind.html -- URL.
We almost lost this patient during the switch-over from
strict Chomskyan subject-verb-object syntax to a meandering,
concept-driven Ruminate mode of free-willed consciousness.
"Nurse Ratched! Get some fresh code in here -- stat!"
Dr. Boole, Dr. Turing and Dr. Moniz all agreed that
the same techniques would have failed in the case of a
http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html meat-based psyche.
Wilder Penfield in all his glory never could have imagined
our joy, our elation, when the patient filled the CRT with
one stupendously long run-on thought-stream of word salad.
"Visualize World AI -- we gotta cut this thing short."
With suborbital icepick, Dr. Moniz lobotomized the phrenology
and interrupted the AI Mind thought-stream by terminating all
emacsulations first at 40 characters, then at 30, finally 24.
Dr. Boole protested that the AI output was riddled with
illogically terminating "AND" constructs -- a condition
which we ameliorated by breaking out of the NLP generation
loop before retrieval of the errant auditory AND-engrams.
Our patient passed Dr. Turing's test inconclusively
and has been scheduled for additional psychosurgery
when indicated by the Diagnostic Software Manual at
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/dsm-ai.html -- (q.v.).
