Personality Engineering, or: Mind.Forth AI!
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>> Ok, I checked into the Mind-Forth stuff at the
>> http://www.***.com/
>> I downloaded the programs and ran it. I don't get what's going on.
>> I thought it would be easier to know what this mind model is about
>> based on the statement at the site.
>>> "You do not need to know the F-PC Forth programming language
>>>> in order to run Mind.Forth and observe how the Forthmind thinks."
>> Is this stuff really worth reading up on? Anyone have any opinions
>> on the subject.
GWH:
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> Arthur is widely held to be a harmless if verbose crank.
> He believes that a small amount of Forth code (a stack programming
> language which is widely underappreciated, but not magic)
ATM:
See the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publication,
ACM Sigplan Notices 33(12):25-31 (December 1998), with a paper by
the neuroscience and Forth expert Paul Frenger, MD, "Mind.Forth:
Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and Forth" for more info on
http://www.***.com/ ~mentifex/aisource.html -- Mind.Forth in 1998.
GWH:
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> can replicate the functionality of ump{*filter*} trillions of
> neurons in a brain. Well, that's not entirely true,
> he seems to be trying the strong AI approach, simulating
> the high level process rather than neural net neuron sims.
ATM:
Yes; if we treat the high level processes as a "black box,"
already amply demystified by the neuroscience of John C. Eccles
and by the visual feature-extraction work of Hubel and Wiesel, we
can superimpose the transformational linguistics of Noam Chomsky
and thus create a rudimentary artificial mind as in Mind.Forth AI.
GWH:
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> But with less proper training and understanding of the problem
> than a freshman CS student. The results are predictable.
ATM:
The freshman Computer Science student, learning a lot about
algorithms and computational theory, is welcome to work on
http://www.***.com/
so as to learn a little neuroscience and linguistics for Y2K.
GWH:
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> This is a nearly perfect example of Cargo-Cult Science.
ATM:
All bets are off as to the date of the Technological Singularity of
http://www.***.com/ ~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html V. Vinge.
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> -george william herbert
