WHAT!!!!
Arthur T. Murray wrote in message <3583bf35.0 at news.victoria.tc.ca>...
>In the public-domain artificial-intelligence project for robots
>http://victoria.tc.ca/~uj797/aisource.html "Mind.forth," if we
>have an array simulating concepts in the human or robot brain
>and if we index into the array with time "t" and with whichever
>column-element that we are trying to retrieve, it may look like
> t @ 1 ( first column) foo{ n }recall engram !
>where we use time "t" to identify a row containing concept "n" and
>its associated flags such as valence "v" and recall vector "r" --
>a pointer to where a word is stored in auditory memory, because
>the conceptual array "lexicon{" will not actually *contain* words.
>>Other operations upon concepts in the robot brain-mind may include
> }augment -- to increase the valence "v" of a concept;
> }flush -- to find the concept with the highest valence;
> }damp -- to decrease the valence of one or all concept(s);
> }spread -- to distribute valence to associated concepts;
> }browse -- to let the programmer inspect any concept;
>and so forth.
>>The present FYI post to all interested parties serves not only to
>describe the current 14.jun.1998 state of Mind.forth Robot AI but
>also to let experts intervene if the Forth coding is going astray.
>>Because Mind.forth is adopting a "quick and dirty" brute-force
>approach to the implementation of verbal concepts in a robot AI,
>exemplified by searching for all instances of concept "n" rather
>than maintaining its own special array for concept "n", it may not
>be possible for early releases of Mind.forth AI to conform to the
>http://forth.org/fsl/docs/fsl_arrays.html "Forth Scientific Library
>Arrays" document detailing how "foo{ n }" arrays are to be created.
>>Specifically, the left side of the array format in Mind.forth will
>variously need to cycle through a few, or recent, or all points "t"
>in search of varying combinations of the quasi-synaptic "flags"
>standing in for what real neurons do in a real wetware brain-mind.
>Therefore anyone able to shed further light here, please do so.
><PRE>
> /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Syntax Strings Together a Thought /^^^^^^^^^^^\
> /visual memory\ ________ semantic / auditory \
>| /--------|-------\ / syntax \ memory |episodic memory|
>| | recog-|nition | \________/------------|-------------\ |
>| ___|___ | | |flush-vector | _______ | |
>| /image \ | __|__ / \ _______ | /stored \ | |
>| / percept \ | / \/ \/ Verbs \------|--/ phonemes\| |
>| \ engrams /---|---/ Nouns \ \_______/ | \ of words/ |
>| \_______/ | \_______/-------------------|---\_______/ |
></PRE>
