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The Smell of the Cyborg

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From: Mentifex
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:00
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http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/ Project Mindmaker deals with robots
and cyborgs based upon our thus far best available Theory of Mind:

  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ The (default) Standard Mind Model /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\                    ________     /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\          / syntax \   |episodic memory|
|      |  recog-|nition |          \________/---|-------------\ |
|   ___|___     |       |              |        |    _______  | |
|  /image  \    |     __V___        ___V___     |   /stored \ | |
| / percept \   |    /deep  \------/lexical\----|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /---|---/concepts\----/concepts \---|--\ of words/  |
|  \_______/    |   \________/    \_________/   |   \_______/   |

Since olfaction, or the sense of smell, is merely one more memory
channel laid down in parallel on the associative mindgrid of both
humans and robots, we track artificial nose Web sites for cyborgs
at http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/webcyc.html#olfactrobo the Webcyc
Mentifex, an advertisement-free Neuro, AI and Robotics Web portal:

 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Alpha_MOS/homepage.htm
 Alpha M.O.S. offers the FOX Electronic Nose product group.

 http://www.aromascan.com
 AromaScan plc--digital aroma technology.

 http://adr.on.ca/techno/esa/esa203.htm
 Artificial Nose Using Conducting Polymer Sensor Array.

 http://www.cyranosciences.com
 Cyrano Sciences, Inc....the Nose-Chip Company.

 http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/proj/neuron/briefs/nose.html
 Electronic/artificial noses at Pacific NW National Lab in WA USA.

 http://www.neotronics.com
 Neotronics Olfactory Sensing Equipment (NOSE).
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From: mentifex@scn.org (Mentifex)
Subject: The Smell of the Cyborg
Date: 1998/07/29
Message-ID: <35bf2e70.0@news.victoria.tc.ca>
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Organization: Project Mindmaker : www.scn.org/~mentifex/
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