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Article #22881Factoring the Mind
From: Arthur T. Murray
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:00
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Let's design a computer as the host architecture of an artificial mind. Basing our design upon the "black box" of the human brain-mind, we can safely start with the Sensorium/Motorium for Input/Output. Quickly we diverge from traditional computer architecture by elongating our Input/Output ports into lifelong memory channels of what goes in and out: Not just one-time data for massage by a software program, but conscious experiences along a multi- sensory continuum in a Stimulus-Response loop -- nay, spiral -- of the computer interacting with the world. Lacking brain-style massively redundant parallelism in our primitive computer architecture, let us simulate mass-par psi phenomena by cycling through minutely factored steps of behavior in serial software on a von Neumann computer architecture. Input alone does not generate thought and consciousness, so let us borrow wholesale from Chomskyan transformational grammar and superimpose a linguistic thinking mechanism over the channels of sensory input. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/mind4th.html is the first instantiation leading to the Technological Singularity of http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html Vinge.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,52bf5915a5286504,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 102b75,52bf5915a5286504,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,52bf5915a5286504,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca9b,52bf5915a5286504,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca9b,public From: uj797@victoria.tc.ca (Arthur T. Murray) Subject: Factoring the Mind Date: 2000/01/26 Message-ID: <388f8bc1@news.victoria.tc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 578090236 References: <86o11h$52q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.60.222.3 Organization: Victoria Telecommunity Network XPident: uj797 Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.software-eng,comp.ai.philosophy,bionet.neuroscience X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com