[Bruce Baugh: psychoceramics: (Fwd) Re: Neurodeconstruction]

[Peter Hipwell <petehip @ cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

Oops, mailed it to the wrong address and it bounced.

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> > 
> > He/she/it is at it again. We may have a new regularly posting kook here.
> > 
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> > From: m--@s--.org (SCN User)
> > Subject: Re: Neurodeconstruction
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> > 
> > When b--@f--.edmonton.ab.ca (Blaine Gordon Manyluk) wishes
> > a demystification of "Neurodeconstruction" nota bene, cogita diu.
> > 
> > What child has not had an older brother who left books about "The
> > Mule" lying around?  What boy has not had his intellectual dreams
> > altered forever upon witnessing the mind-machine linkage in "For-
> > bidden Planet"?  Thenceforth festers the desire to make AI minds.
> > 
> > When the mind-design is ready for public-dominialization,  Usenet
> > offers the broadest dissemination but some inscrutable newsgroups
> > -- alt.postmodern -- alt.neo-tech -- defy comprehension of theme.
> > Analysis of the long stream of thoughtful, carefully reasoned and
> > gravitas-laden posts yields a flashing recognition of invocations
> > of the vogue of "Deconstruction" as practiced by literary critics
> > in Nazi-occupied Europe.  Mutatis mutandis:  Neurodeconstruction.
> >
> 
> It's well worth checking out the neo-tech website. They've
> got a massive amount on there detailing the workings of Zonpower, a
> kind of an Ayn Rand kind of a thing with some startling physical
> theories, the complete laying bare of The Civilization Of The
> Universe, the link with the Illuminati, etc. etc. I can't decipher
> what the link with deconstructionism there would be, but what do I
> know? 
>  
> > 
> >   /^^^^^^^^^^^\ concept-fibers ganged together as /^^^^^^^^^^^\
> >  /  -infancy-  \ 3 mini-grids of semantic memory /  -infancy-  \
> > |               | including "grandmother" cells |               |
> > | episodic      |  * $ H-----H * * H $ H * H $  | episodic      |
> > | visual        |  * $ H $ * H *-* H $ H * H $  | auditory      |
> > | memory        |  * $ H $ * H * * H $-------$  | memory        |
> > | recognitions  |  * $---$ * H * * H $ H * H $  | activations   |
> > |      /------- |  * $ H $ * H-------------H $  | at            |
> > |      |        |  * $ H $-----------$ H * H $  | multiple      |
> > |      +------- |  * $ H $ * H * * H---H * H $  | random        |
> > |      |        |  *-------* H * * H $ H * H $  | intervals     |
> > |      |        |  * $ H $ * H *-* H $ H * H $  | such          |
> > |      +------- |  * $ H---------------H * H $  | as:           |
> > |   ___|___     |  * $ H $ * H *---------* H $  |    ________   |
> > |  /image  \    |  * $ H $ *---* * H $ H * H $  |   / stored \  |
> > | / percept \<--|----->H $ * H * * H $ H * H----|->/ H-e-l-e-n\ |
> > | \ of Helen/   |  * $ H $ * H * * H $ H * H $  |  \ phonemes / |
> > |  \_______/    |  * $ H $ * H * * H $ H * H $  |   \________/  |
> > |               |                               |               |
> > |  -maturity-   | language ________ structures  |  -maturity-   |
> > |      /--------|-------\ / syntax \            |               |
> > |      |  recog-|nition | \________/<-----------|------------\  |
> > |   ___|___     |       |    |flush-vector      |    ______  |  |
> > |  /image  \    |    ___V____V___  word-fetch   |   /      \ |  |
> > | / percept \<--|-->/ conceptual \--------------|->/ stored \|  |
> > | \ engrams /   |   \ mini-grids / for thinking |  \ words  /   |
> > |  \_______/    |    \__________/  in language  |   \______/    |
> > 
> > Alpha Bletchley Ctesiphon Dongba Futhark Grof Heisei Merced Tesla
> > 
> 
> Hmmmmm, nice diagram. This looks like the .sig of a guy who used to
> post in sci.cognitive extended upwards with this infancy -> maturity
> dimension. Some of this stuff is familiar to me: for example,
> "grandmother cells" were a concept floating round in the 60s-70s, the
> suggestion being there might be individual brain cells that were so
> specific in response they would only fire when you were looking at
> e.g. your grandmother (the evidence went against it). The word
> "engrams" is an old term for memories, specifically memories locatable
> in the brain. "Bletchley" is the name of the WWII code-breaking centre
> in England (I think), where Alan Turing (famous AI guy) worked. Tesla,
> I guess we all know. I don't recognize any of the other names at the
> bottom. The only unfamiliar terms are "concept fibres", "flush vector"
> and "mini-grids". This kind of box/arrow diagram is reminiscent of
> lots of cognitive psychology theories, although this one seems a
> little... uh, wooly and underspecified.  
>