___________ _________________________________________
|Audition: | |Mind.rexx Level Three: Auditory Memory. |
Input |User enters| |ShortTermMem() enters quasi-phonemes |
:::::::|sentences. | |(letters) into the engram array "ph.t". |
|___________| |_________________________________________|
| /|\
________V___ __|_____________ _______________
|Sensorium() | |Comparator() | |String_effect()|
|orchestrates| \|matches input | \|passes |
|recognition |--------|phonemes against|--------|activation from|
|of words. | /|auditory memory.| /|one phonemic |
| | |________________| |engram to its |
| | |successor. |
| | _____________________ |_______________|
| |/ |Main body DO-FOREVER | _________________
| |------|loop calls functions | |Metempsychosis() |
| |\ \|in simulation of | |(not yet coded) |
| |------|massive parallelism. | |will reload saved|
| | /|_____________________| |states of mind. |
| | | |_________________|
| | _____V_______________________________
| | |Language() synthesizes a sentence by |Output
| | |calling modules that flush out words.|::::::
| | |_____________________________________|
| | | | |
| | ___V____________ | __V_________________
| | |Subject() makes | | |Predicate() flushes |
| | |a first call to | | |out the most active |
| | |NounPhrase(). | | |verb in the lexicon.|
| | |________________| | |____________________|
| | | | | | | | |
| | | _____________V____V_ | | | |
| | | |Deep_structure() | | | | |
| | | |transfers activation| | | | |
| | | |from deep concepts | | | | |
| | | |to shallow lexicon. | | | | |
| | | |____________________| | | | |
| | _V_________________________V_ | | |
| | |NounPhrase() flushes out the | | | |
| | |momentarily most active noun | | | |
| | |to be subject or object of a | | | |
| | |verb around which a sentence | | | |
| | |is forming in the robot mind.| | | |
| | |_____________________________| | | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | | | ___V_____________V_ | |
| | | | | |Ideadamp() de- | | |
| | | | | |activates concepts.| | |
| | | | | |___________________| | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | _V_______________________V |
| | | | |Fiberdamp() deactivates | |
| | | | |words that have been used.| |
| | | | |__________________________| |
| | | _V_____________________________ |
| | | |TransferAct() passes activation| |
| | | |from a temporal node on one | |
| | | |concept to a synchronous node | |
| | | |on an associated concept. | |
| | | |_______________________________| |
| |/ __V____________________________________V_
| |--------|Reentry() submits the output of the mind |
| |\ |back into the mind as auditory input. |
| | |It is how a brain "hears itself think." |
| | |_________________________________________|
| |
| | ______________________________________
| | \|Wordend() is a waystation on the path |
| |----|of dealing with recognized words. |
|____________| /|______________________________________|
| |
___V____________ |
|Retro() assigns | |
|"ultimate-tags" | |
|at end of words.| __________________ |
|________________| |Level Two of Mind:| |
| |Attach() creates | |
| |quasi-fibers of | |
___V_________ |lexical items in | |
|Newconcept() | |the compound-stem | ___V_______________
|records new | \|array "fiber.n.t",|/ |Oldconcept() renews|
|lexical items|----|which holds the |-----|old lexical items |
|and their | /|controlling |\ |and their |
|corresponding| |flag-panel for | |corresponding |
|concepts in | |a word stored in | |concepts in the |
|the mindcore.| |auditory memory. | |monad.f.t mindcore.|
|_____________| |__________________| |___________________|
| | |
| | |
______V________________________________________V__ _V________
| Level One: The Mindcore | |Holodyne()|
|Instantiate() holds 64 primitive concepts | |activates |
|optimized for porting to 64-bit DEC Alpha | |all nodes |
|and any new concepts learned by Mind.rexx | |of one |
|in the compound-stem array "monad.f.t". | |concept. |
|__________________________________________________| |__________|
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