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(For additional background, please run a Web search on Mentifex.)

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ Top-down Overview; Details on WWW /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\           ________   semantic   /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\ / syntax \  memory    |episodic memory|
|      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|-------------\ |
|   ___|___     |       |    |flush-vector      |    _______  | |
|  /image  \    |    ___V____V___  word-fetch   |   /stored \ | |
| / percept \<--|-->/ conceptual \--------------|->/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /   |   \ mini-grids / for thinking |  \ of words/  |
|  \_______/    |    \__________/  in language  |   \_______/   |

D.G. Mitchell <mitchell@cs.toronto.edu> says rather powerfully:

> Sure enough, the mentifex picture is a lot like pictures you can 
> see at the start of many old cognitive psychology books, for example.  
> This is generally followed by a few hundred pages of stuff which
> shows this kind of picture to be hopelessly naive and quite useless 
> as a scientific theory of the brain.

> David

- The Mentifex mind-diagram is more detailed and more explicit than
  the old psychology books, and new linguistics journals have begun
  to publish figures which agree with the lay-out of this diagram.
  (See G.S. Dell, "Structure and Content in Language Production".)

- The diagram is posted under the assumption that intellectually
  curious persons will pick some area (module) of the proposed mind-
  model and investigate its deeper description in the URL documents,
  maintaining a dual attitude of:  absorb new ideas + stop on error.

- At a glance, a neuroscientist should be able to decide upon the
  superficial plausibility of the top-down diagram and then, if still
  undecided, plunge deeper into the URL mind-model in a self-terminating
  process of stop-at-point-of-either-fatal-flaw-or-no-new-ideas.

- The entire Mentifex meme campaign is thus like a computer program
  with an exit-on-error trap:  Search and destroy this theory of mind
  (or silently adapt and use it in your secret hidden AI coup d'etat).