COMMENTS for Mind.forth AI URL/screen23.html on RE-ENTRY Scr #23.

  Hearing    Vision    Concepts Volition Emotion   Motor Output
 /iiiiiii\  /!i!i!i!\                             /YYYYYYYYYYYY\
| ||||||| || ||||||| |   T                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| || | ___ | |   +                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  /old\  |   +                       | |S|||||||||| |
| ||||||| || (image)-|---+_                      | |H|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  \___/  |  /  \                     | |A|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||         | (idea)               __   | |K|||||||||| |
| | ||||| ||         |  \__/---------------/  \  | |E|||R|||||| |
| |d------||---------|---+        ____    (fear)-|--*|||U|||||| |
| ||||o|| ||  _____  |   +-------/    \----\__/  | |||||N|||P|| |
| ||g|||| || / re- \-|---+      / de-  \---------|------*|||E|| |
| || |||| ||/entrant\|   +     (  ci-   )        | |||||||||T|| |
| ||||||| ||\ image /|   +      \ sion /---------|----------*|| |
| ||||||| || \_____/ |   +       \____/          | |||||||||||| |

15dec1998:  Although the Mind.forth RE-ENTRY Scr #23 code will not
be written for a while, an explanation of re-entry can be given.

The Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman has written extensively on re-entry
in his books on the brain-mind and on his Theory of Neuronal Group
Selection (TNGS), but Edelman's ideas on re-entry may not be the
same as what is practiced here in Mind.forth AI.  As a courtesy
both to Edelman and to the inquisitive reader, he is cited here.

The diagram above shows an instance of re-entry in the visual
memory channel.  When an old image (that is, a collection of
features) is recognized, it is also redeposited as an engram of
current experience along the advancing front of consciousness.

In 26nov1994 Mind.rexx and in ca. 1999 Mind.forth, a Chomsksyan
syntax tree generates a sentence of verbal thought by reactivating
old phonemic memories stored in the auditory memory channel: ear{ }.

Although it was created out of old memory traces, the sentence is
a new experience, amd therefore it must *enter* the very mind that
has created it.  The AI software simply feeds the new sentence back
into the SENSORIUM Scr #15 subroutine, but with special tagging to
record the fact that the source of the re-entered idea was internal.

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for 26.Nov.1994 Mind.rexx shows how Re-entry works in the AI mind.

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