Moving-Wave Algorithm of Mentifex Mind.Forth AI Mentifex Mind.Forth AI is adopting a Moving-Wave Algorithm of activation spreading over the robot mindgrid.
Activation Rules -- Moving Like a Wave Through the Mindgrid 1. With A New Concept For new concepts being learned as input, the HCI module has the "uract" variable with a value of, say, 32, that functions in the Parser module to assign activation "act" going into Instantiate. It may be possible to stop using "uract" and use only "act". Since a new concept may be learned at any time, both old concepts and new concepts should receive the same general activation level. In a radical departure from previous lore, we should perhaps consider giving new concepts only a partial, incomplete activation. After all, what the Mind itself is thinking, is more important than what a keyboard user may be saying to the Mind. Any input idea is already receiving attention from the Mind, but must compete with thoughts-in-progress for domination of the sovereign chains of thought of the Mind. When the robot Mind listens to the human keyboard user, the input information is duly recorded as associatively tagged engrams in the auditory memory channel. Whether or not the information of human origin sways the Mind of the robot, is a matter of the state of mind of the robot. 2. With Known Concepts http://mind.sourceforge.net/oldcept.html oldConcept module recognizes a known word. http://mind.sourceforge.net/activate.html Activate module imposes __ units of activation. http://mind.sourceforge.net/spredact.html spreadAct-Module passes __ units to "pre" and "seq" concepts. 3. During Generation of a Sentence of Thought Activation only really matters during generation of thoughts, not during the reception of input from a human keyboard user. A case could be made for the notion that a question entered by a human user should receive a higher activation than a mere statement entered by a human user. Various question words or auxiliary verbs could trigger the higher activation. A threshhold of activation must be surpassed for inclusion of concept in a sentence. The psiDecay module constantly decrements activation of unused concepts. "Bulge" occurs when both noun and verb pass activation to a direct object. If multiple successive inputs use different subjects but the same verb, routing of activations must still select the proper associations among concepts. The generation process itself may spur the activation of each next word in a sentence. It is not necessary to pre-activate all the words in a sentence. The process of NLP generation "chases" activation from http://mind.sourceforge.net/svo.html concept to concept. The general idea for sustaining chains of thought is that winning concepts selected for thought-generation shall be assigned such transitory-but-high activations that the winning concepts manage to do their work before they, too, succumb to the psiDecay assaults. The notion of the Moving Wave Algorithm conforms to the general http://mind.sourceforge.net/theory3.html#1979may11 brain-principle that everything is inhibited unless specifically activated. The http://mind.sourceforge.net/psidecay.html module tries to suppress the activation of concepts, but the meandering chain of thought "goes against the grain" by passing the baton of activation from concept to concept. -- http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1052883.1052885 -- Assoc. for Comp. Mach. http://mind.sourceforge.net/mind4th.html is the free AI source code. http://www.914pcbots.com has the A.I. Zone of "Mentifex Communicat". ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
