In the history of neuroscience--which BTW is on view at the
<a href="http://bri.medsch.ucla.edu/NHA/nhahome.html"> NHA </a>
Neuroscience History Archives of the Brain Research Institute--
only he who floats a dilemma will be he who groks a eureka.
The Mentifex mind-model grew by a slow accretion of: facts from
neuroscience, theories from linguistics, and conjecture from AI--
until the edge of the precipice was reached and Nature did leap.
The posing of one deceptively simple question led swiftly to the
<a href="http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/"> Unified Theory of Cognition </a>:
"How does the human brain remember a verb stored in auditory memory?"
Hindsight permits us to use the word "auditory" in the ur-question,
because it was not yet clear that the Chomskyan language structures
at the core of the mind did not *contain* the words of thought, but
rather syntax *manipulates* the words stored in the auditory memory:
<PRE>
/^^^^^^^^^^^\ The Chomskyan Machinery of Mind /^^^^^^^^^^^\
/visual memory\ ________ semantic / auditory \
| /--------|-------\ / syntax \ memory | memory |
| | recog-|nition | \________/------------|-------------\ |
| ___|___ | | |flush-vector | _______ | |
| / \ | ___V____V__ word-fetch | / \ | |
| / visual \---|---/ concept \---------------|--/ word \| |
| \ engrams / | \ neurons / for thinking | \ engrams / |
| \_______/ | \_________/ in language | \_______/ |
</PRE>
<a href="http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/"> Vinge </a>
foretold the Technological Singularity which, observe, now begins:
<a href="http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/aisource.html"> Mind.forth </a>.
