Ben Goertzel wrote: > Here is an excerpt from the previous draft of the in-process Novamente > book. These are the introductory sections of the chapter on Psynese, > prior to the technical bits of the chapter. They contain some > Novamente terminology that will be opaque due to lack of context, but > they should give you a better flavor for the Psynese concept...
It seems like you are trying to hybridize George Boole's _The Laws of Thought_ with a notion from the third book of Guliver's Travels -- that of a bag of things people would lug around in order to communicate. I mean no disrespect here. Its just that technology people tend to loose their historical perspective in this age of fads and 18-month product cycles. On the subject of mind-reading, I have come up with a plausable if not completely practical idea. Take a bunch of nanotubes and use them as electrodes, tie one to each pyramidal cell in the cortex you want to read. To learn the code, you present a series of stimuli to the person to find out which cortical column is encoding which abstraction. You will find that the columns will become active whenever they detect a specific "feature" in the input stream. After a while it should be possible to discover the locations of high-level concepts. You can then use this to design a machine which con be given a nearly arbitrary text to be translated into this encoding and implanted. The person would perceive the message but not be able to explain where it came from. Such a device would need to be self-tuning as the brain is constantly refining its abstractions. -- pain (n): see Linux. http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/ ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
