🚀 go-pugleaf

   Anyone may participate in Vinge's Technological Singularity by
working on some aspect of robotics or artificial intelligence and
by webcasting the work in progress.   Let conflicting theories of
mind shake out a standard model in neuroscience and release every
mind-model into the public domain for open inspection on the Web:

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ THEORY OF MIND FOR ROBOTICS & AI /^^^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\ brain-mind________  abstract   | auditory      |
|      /--------|-------\ / syntax \ memory     | memory        |
|      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|------------\  |
|   ___|___     |       |    |flush-vector      |    ______  |  |
|  /image  \    |    ___V____V__  word-fetch    |   /      \ |  |
| / percept \<--|-->/ array of  \---------------|->/ stored \|  |
| \ engrams /   |   \ concepts  / for thinking  |  \ words  /   |
|  \_______/    |    \_________/  in language   |   \______/    |

For Web document archive link to http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/;
AI-in-progress query "Mentifex" http://www.altavista.digital.com.