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In article <342946ba.920708@news.earthlink.net>,
Louis Savain <savainl@earthlink.net> wrote:
>In article <60bg0b$cbp$1@now.cirl.uoregon.edu>,
>deej@now.cirl.uoregon.edu (David Joslin) wrote:
>
>>[...]
>>And now you are back with *another* AI revolution.  Two AI
>>revolutions in just over two years.  Pretty damned impressive.
>
>  No need to get excited, David. 

Excited?  Not until the promised demo materializes and
does something exciting.   I'll wait.


>We are not scientists, just computer
>technologists with some ideas.  Two years ago we got overly enthused
>by some results we obtained using Boolean networks.  We were wrong.

Bravo for admitting it.  I think you might have saved
yourself a lot of time by listening to people who
tried to point out some of the more glaring errors,
last time around, rather than dismissing them as being
"threatened" by your research.  But credit where
it is due:  the fact that you went to the trouble
to *test* your theories (and that, once you did, you
were willing to admit you were wrong) puts you *miles*
ahead of lots of others who show up in comp.ai with
big claims and nothing else.


>But we continued to work on our ideas and this time, we think we got
>some important stuff.  You just be patient, amigo. 

That's what you told me two years ago. 

Do you really expect me to be patient, when there is
an Impending AI Revolution?  When there is a demo just
around the corner that is going to prove that my work
has been misguided, and that I need to join the Temporal
Neuron Revolution before it passes me by?  The winds of
change are blowing, and any minute now a Tornado of
Revolution will pass through here, tossing the cows of
complacency through the air like cheesy effects in
some over-hyped summer blockbuster, and you expect me
to just sit by and be *patient*!?!  My god, man, I'm
only human!

Whatever you do, don't torture me further by going away
for another two years, Br'er Savain.


>And, by the way,
>this is not our revolution.  The temporal neuron revolution is coming
>from neurophysiology and computational neuroscience.  Do a little
>search on the web for these names:  Henry Markram, Terrence Sejnowski,
>Cristof Koch and others.  You AI types should keep up with the
>hard-science advances in neurophysiology.  Those folks are much closer
>to the truth than most of you.  Ciao.

Presumably your soon-to-be-released demo will demonstrate
this.  I'll wait (as patiently as I can manage).

dj