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David Longley wrote:
> 
......

> To be a breakthrough, a discovery has to be more than one getting
> excited   about   something  one  learns  -  to  be   a   genuine
> breakthrough, one needs to know the literature and be working  in
> the field to know what is and is not new and worthy of attention.
> How else can one ascertain whether it is indeed a breakthrough?
> 
> If you want to make any real progress on "learning machines"  you
> are  going  to  have  to come to grips with  the  issues  I  have
> discussed elsewhere, the most important of which is that most  of
> our psychological idioms, including those of learning and memory,
> are  intensional idioms, not the stuff a science  and  technology
> can or should be grounded upon (and to fully appreciate that, you
> need to know the literature).
> --
> David Longley (check end reply line #)

Agreed, I do not say "I have made a breakthrough" full-stop.
I have a reasonable understanding of the field, I am not currently
working in the field. But this does not mean my ideas are necessarily
invalid. It is my opinion that much of the field has somewhat stagnated,
if this serves to generate debate, and perhaps explore a different
direction, then that is to be encouraged.

I have not made any computational models of my sheme yet. I wanted to
get peoples thoughts on the ideas I have presented. I have read many of
the applicable journals, both biological and computational, and talked
with many researchers in neuro-science and AI, and I have not found this
learning scheme stated anywhere else. 
This thread seemed to touch on many of the ideas contained in my
approach, and so I am inturested to find out what you think.
To me, my apporach seems not only obvious, but an inevitable consequence
of what we understand about the human brain. 
I may well be mistaken in my ideas, and I hope you will correct me if
this is so.
There are many issues to be resolved if my scheme is to work, and this
will require considerable research and experimentation. I therefore felt
it important to establish the validity of the general appraoch before
commiting myself to futher research.

Thanks

Howard Snart