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Senator: Jhon Mcain;
Road Map for Republican Victory:
How perfect that the solution has already been so
clearly articulated by the Founders.
God bless them; may we one day live up to their expectations for us:


That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is
the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new
guards for their future security.
This would be good if the Goverment was doing
it all.  The villian lack of "TRUTH" from Goverment
"ACCOUNTING STANDARDS", Socal Security will
be killed by "HYPERINFLATION", at the hands of
the 'FEDERIAL RESERVE' (not part of our goverment).
If Inflation exceeds 25%/year 'ABOLISH THE FED' and
If Deflation exceeds 5%/year  'ABOLISH THE FED'.
They need a 'TIGHTER CHARTER FORM CONGRESS',
computers are up to the task, the will for better
models is a POLICY ISSUE.  Give everyone a fedral
'DEBIT CARD', and only 'charge the card' on given
dates, now that's STIMULESS THAT WORKS, because
the money can only be spent on list of mandates
in defined windows of time.  That 'DATA' can be
tracked and the 'COMPUTER MODELS', improved!!!
Harold P Boushell
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FYI:
<
http://www.examiner.com/x-536-Civil-Liberties-Examiner~y2009m4d2-Political-activ\
ist-detained-by-TSA-for-carrying-cash >
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Tom: 16NOV08Cut & Past into word.  This articalis for G&L productions.  Next,
installment15DEC08.  I hope he can FTP it tonight.Market crash monday, will be
timely.Harold*******************************START of
artical.*******************************HPB Vector  Speculative Investorby Harold
P BoushellDate Line:  15NOV08The  Speculative Investor has adifferent “slant on
life in general”.These FYI remarks  are designedto provide you insights to
capitalmarkets information in a timelymanner.  The operating parameterhear is 
“Buy the roomer,  sell thefact”.All investment throughout historyrequire
attention, speculative onesrequire more attention every day,and sometimes review
hourlyespecially at the close of market.And yes you must do your home-work ever
night to set-up yourtrades for the next Open.  Thiscolumn assumes you have
WEBaccess and a broker account. If youdon’t understand how to use e-mailand how
to cut & past to a URL addressthen get someone to teach you how. All time
horizons are assumed to 18month and marked (S), anythingbeyond 18 months is a
long and marked(L). Some stocks will be marked (DD)meaning double down.  (BD)
meansbuy on dips. Other stocks will be marked(ADR) short for American
DepositaryReceipt.  (VS) Very Speculative, and(ES) Extremely Speculative.
(AV)Avoid at all costs. Other notations willbe added from time to time.Money
invested in any stock recommendedin this column should not effect or affectyour
life style. Buyer be ware !!!Gold is hot for the next 4 years, bothshort-term 
and long-term.  The Fed’srescue is a driving the long term forces.Administration
uncertainty is driving theshort term forces.  In the short-termgold will dip to
612 or so, this is yourchance to buy into Physical Gold, myrecommendation is
just 13 Coins, youshould only pay $ 79.00 over the LondonSpot. Recommended WEB
site is:http://www.bullionvault.com/Hear is the Slant  sell into the marketwith
just two coins to get your premiumback at price target is $ 930.  Do not
buycoins with numismatics value. Ref. URL:http://www.learcapital.com/Long term
gold should peak above $ 7,200+per troy-oz.  Look for a remonitoriezing ofthe
USD with a 20% devaluation. This eventwill come with out warning, possibly
soon.Telltale signs will be talk about the WorldBank and its new role as a Super
Bank forthe world, from the G-20 meeting in progressas we speak.  They may even
speak of a newworld currency, that your tip-off.   Ifunemployment goes above 12
½  percentis another trip-point devaluation comingsoon to re-inflate housing
market if notto sell (BA) aircraft.  Buy into PhysicalGold  ASAP, up to the
limit of 13 ty-oz.9 Stocks for Speculative Investor:Divide your money 9 ways for
safety. Set your STOP LOSS LIMITS @  0.666of  entry dip’s.  Use 3 year charts
foryour EXIT prophet taking less 0.03 cense,and in some cases use 77 % of  6
monthpeaks. Check out  http://www.otcbb.com/for low fees and free quotes. 
Obscurestocks don’t know there’s a depression.Expect Stocks to open lower
17NOV08,(AZK)   - Rating (S) spikier.(CBLRF) - Rating (VS).(CRUGF) - Rating
(VS).(GRZ)   - Rating (S).(KGN)   - Rating (S).(MDW)   - Rating (S) take
over.(MYNG)  - Rating (VS) spikier.(OZN)   - Rating (VS).(WITM)  - Rating
(VS).Supplemental Stocks:(OXY)   - Rating (DD,L), below  $42.10(IBM)   - Rating
(DD,L), below  $75.00(GM)    - Rating (AV), Very sick. *(1)(F)     - Rating
(VS).(BA)    - Rating (L),  DOW @ 7,200.Remarks & Quotes:“The consumer economy
we allknew and loved has died.”  …A different economy is waitingto be born, but
it is nothing likethe one that has died. The economyto come is one of rigor and
austerity.It is not the kind of thing that a nationof overfed clowns is used to.
Do weeven have a prayer of getting to it,or are we going to squander
ourdwindling resources on life supportfor something that is already dead?James
Howard KunstlerWhiskey & Gunpowder*(1) Let's be clear. The alternative
togovernment cash for GM is not adreamy Chapter 11 filing, a  reorganizationthat
puts dealers and the UAW in  theirplace, ensuring future success.  No, evenif 
GM could get debtor-in-possessionfinancing to keep the lights on (whichit
can't), Chapter 11 means a collapseof sales and a spiral into a Chapter
7liquidation.Source:  http://www.autonews.com/  Automotive News is the
newspaperof the automotive industry. The tabloidnewsweekly and is read by
NorthAmerican car and truck manufacturers,their franchised dealers, and
original-equipment suppliers. It is publishedby Crain Communications
Inc.*******************************END of artical also see
ATTACHED.*******************************
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Harold P. Boushell wrote:

> The Fed has added 28% to the national debt in a DAY by
> this take over the $5.5 trillion obligations of the two
> giant government-sponsored mortgage lenders, with a
> $200 billion down payment to re-capitalize them will not
> work. Soon it will be discovered in coming months that
> 87% of that $5.5 trillion is bad-paper, and that salvage
> value is only 715 billion dollars is the final residual.

Silly wabbit, the US constitution grants CONGRESS the power to contract
debts (art 1 sec 8), and it prohibits the treasury from paying anyone
anything unless through an act of congress (art 1 sec 9). So what you're
saying is legally impossible... For if it did happen, then the people
would rebel against the government for being tyranical (lawless). Since
the people aren't rebelling, then it can't be happening. ;)


--
FAKE candidates; RIGGED machines; Don't vote.
Remember, if there aren't any anti-war candidates, it's not an election.
Chemistry.com: A total rip-off.
Powers are not rights.

The Vice President
Richard B. Cheney
www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/
boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm;


Hello any one there ??? there is a “Super Crash” coming.

The devastate to millions of Americans will be felt around
the world. The continued fallout will not slow down until
09AUG2009 look for an up-tick from there, until then its
all down hill.

16SEP08 BACKROUND:

The Fed has added 28% to the national debt in a DAY by
this take over the $5.5 trillion obligations of the two
giant government-sponsored mortgage lenders, with a
$200 billion down payment to re-capitalize them will not
work. Soon it will be discovered in coming months that
87% of that $5.5 trillion is bad-paper, and that salvage
value is only 715 billion dollars is the final residual.

SIDE BAR: A “BILLION DOLARS” is 22,000 people working
for one calendar year,

With the population at 301,139,947 (July 2007 est.) / 2.2
= households = 136,881,794 and a new average projected HOUSE
value of $146,000 the government just bought 27.95% of the
households in the USA, or 4,897,260 homes.

The Federal Reserve has been egger to agree to take on the
sub-prime loans as collateral from banks, giving them more
power to shore-up loans in return, in order to prevent a
further meltdown in the Stock Market. With yet another
large liability for the taxpayer. Now the Fed try to grease
the financial plumbing Monday, by pumping a total of $70
billion into the system through open market operations,
more tax-payer money, and it worked for two days.

Does any one see a problem hear ???

(pictures hear)

The Fed started the hole problem in the first place !!!! Their
“ONE” dimensional thinking is the problem. Where is there
COMPUTER MODELS of the USA and the WORLD economies ?? Do they
Not buy Gasoline at the pump? It appears that UCLA has a better
California and USA model than they do.

PUNCH LINE:

This ball-out will cost the average American $85,000 dollars
over the next 6-18 months... in (real-terms) not adjusted for
the coming fall in the American Dollar that’s $495.83 a month
for you and your “Grate grate grand-children” will keep paying
and paying and paying for this rescue.

Now, all you’ll hear about soaring gas and food prices
inflation and the credit crunch. The exploding trade
deficit… the stagnating economy one sound bite at a time.

Congress and the Press are missing the big picture.

“Fact is, the broad range of threats facing the U.S. economy
aren’t just isolated events anymore. They’re swirling together
to create a wealth-destroying “Super Crash” growing much more
damaging than the sum of its parts” *(1)

Indeed, more dangerous than anything we’ve seen since the
Great Depression, (1930 after un-employment hit 23%). The
coming “Super Crash”, un-employment will hit 75% and may
peek at 80% before Congress can act, that is they CAN NOT fix
“TRUST” and “CREDIT” issues, before the Financial Markets
hear and around the WORLD. [Up-Date], The recent action
of stopping SHORT SELLING against the BANKS will only prolong
this problem into 3 years instead of 2 years.

Just getting a handle problem of the “Super Crash” will take
Congress a year. Let alone any structural changes like ABOLISHING
the FEDRAL RESURVE, discerning the internist rates for different
usages, and consolidating the DOLLAR as we know it and issuing a
new MONEY SYSTEM tied to the new interest rate system. With the
New Federal National Bank will set and “over-see” the “FLOAT
IF WILL”, on exchange rates between the COLORS of money. While
Congress sets the “interest rates on the “COLORS”. This is the
only alternative to WAGE and PRICE CONTROLS, that still supports
a “FREE MARKETS” system.

Un-employment, Job-Creation and Energy independence are the
tasks before CONGRESS not meddling with the qualifications
of investment advisors, or trying to write regulations for
the STOCK MARKET. If you want more I have it.

Harold P Boushell

*(1) Parts are from:
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Group/Allen       03JUL2006

New record on my quest to 229,000,000 directories.

Just passed 84,934,656 directory entries with out error.
Each file is limited to (1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 2) -42 bytes.

The task would be made easier if the OPEN command
could handle more than 65536 - 2 threads.  What about
a "C", "C#" up-grade, to (4,294,967,296) -2 threads!!!!

Harold


***********************************************
>From: "Harold P. Boushell" <haroldpboushell@...>
>Reply-To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
>To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
>CC: haroldpboushell@...
>Subject: [arcondev] RE: BINARY ENGLISH WORDS
>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:34:29 -0800
>
>Hi Alan:    13FEB2006
>
>As you can see there is more to this than just ranking the words
>by size. Remember the Definitions must read forwards and backwards.
>
>00001 .RUN "THINK_BUILD_DIRECTORYS"
>00002 .ZERO = 0
>00003 .ONE = 1       ***************************************
>00004 .TWO = 2      ***
>     ***
>00005 .THREE = 3    ***  "BINARY-WORDS" 00001-01024           ***
>00006 .FOUR = 4      ***   UBIQUITOUS = ever present              ***
>00007 .FIVE = 5       ***   without proof - words are                   ***
>00008 .SIX = 6         ***   at hard-wire level thought
>***
>00009 .SEVEN = 7    ***   start with XXXXX line number.             ***
>00010 .EIGHT = 8    ***
>     ***
>00011 .NINE = 9      ***************************************
>00012 .TEN = 10
>00013 .CARRY = { move to next power of ten }
>00014
>00015 .PLUS = "+"
>00016
>00017 .SET = { MANY OF((((ICON) OR WORD) OR NUMBER) OR STRING) }
>00018
>00019 .THING = { ONE SET }
>00020
>00021 .SOMETHING = { un-determined or un-specified thing }
>00022 .OR = { “IF_NOT_SOMETHING_THEN_SOMETHING” }
>00023 .ADD = { SOMETHING + SOMETHING }
>00024
>00025 .SOME = { ONE TO FIVE SOMETHING SMALL }
>00026
>00027
>00028 .SUBTRACT = { SOMETHING - SOMETHING }
>00029 .MULTIPLY = { SOMETHING * SOMETHING }
>00030 .DIVIDE = {SOMETHING / SOMETHING }
>00031 .NO = { STOP SOMETHING }
>00032
>00033 .NOT = { NO SOMETHING }
>00034
>00035 .SUB = { under or beneath or subordinate or secondary }
>00036
>00037 .AND = SOMETHING ADD SOMETHING
>00038
>00039 .STOP = FINISH SOMETHING
>00040
>00041 .LINE = .FORMAT(X2,0,0) - FORMAT(X1,0,0)
>00042
>00043 .FORMAT(x,y,z) = { front of something and un-mistakable many line }
>00044
>00045 .THE = ONE OF FORMAT(X,Y,Z) SOMETHING
>00046
>00047 .DIGIT = { SET LIKE 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 0 }
>00048
>00049 .MUCH = { grate in quantity or extent or degree }
>00050
>00051 .SUBSTANCE = { PHYSICAL MATERIAL ESSENCE }
>00052
>00053 .NUMBER = { DIGIT SET or "N" }
>00054
>00055 .COUNT = NUMBER + 1
>00056
>00057 .WITH = FORMAT(X,Y,Z) AND SOMETHING
>00058
>00059 .UNION = WITH SOMETHING AND SOMETHING
>00060
>00061 .PURE = { foreign mass no and no corruption }
>00062
>00063
>00064
>00065 .SAME = { COUNT PATH alike }
>00066
>00067 .STATE = { SMALL SET MENY DIGIT SOMETHING }
>00068
>00069 .FOND = HAS IDEA MUCH CARING
>00070
>00071 .LOVE = FOND MUCH STATE
>00072
>00073
>00074
>00075 .GOD = IN BEGING WAS WORD AND WORD WITH ALL AND WORD WAS ALL
>00076
>00077
>00078
>00079 .HOLY = ALL WITH WORD ALL WAS WORD ALL WAS PURE GOD WAS HAPPY
>00080
>00081
>00082
>00083 .GOOD = ALL SAME HOLY LOVE
>00084
>00085
>00086
>00087 .HAPPY = MUCH GOOD SOMETHING ALL
>00088
>00089 .MEMBER = SOMETHING UNION SET ONE
>00090
>00091 .LIKE = { MUCH HAPPY MEMBER OF SET }
>00092
>00093 .A = ONE SOMETHING
>00094
>00095 .ABOUT = ON EVERY SIDE NEAR SOMETHING
>00096
>00097 .EQUAL = { THE SAME }
>00098
>00099 .LESS = SUB SET SOMETHING
>00100
>00101 .FEW = LESS THAN FIVE SOMETHING
>00102
>00103 .YES = { like about something }
>00104
>00105 .MORE = ADD SOMETHING TO SOMETHING MUCH
>00106
>00107 .PATH = { route or course }
>00108
>00109 .IF = YES OR NO
>00110
>00111 .MANY = { THREE AND MORE }
>00112
>00113 .WORK = MOVE MASS PATH FORMAT(X,Y,Z)(X2-X1)
>00114
>
>by for now
>
>Harold
>
>haroldpboushell@... [ public information not secret OK :) ]
>
>
>**************************************************
> >From: "Harold P. Boushell" <haroldpboushell@...>
> >To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: BINARY ENGLISH WORDS
> >Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:13:10 -0800
> >
> >Hi Alan:    10JAN2006
> >
> >I'm still working on my binary words in ENGLISH.
> >There are 1024 now.  Simple concept, just
> >make a list in which to define all other English
> >words.  Definitions must read forwards and backwards.
> >
> >Backwards so computer can look up the "229 billions"
> >directories of combinations etc.
> >
> >Send me a e-mail at haroldpboushell@...
> >
> >by:
> >
> >Harold
> >
> >
> >
> >*************************************
> >>From: Alan Grimes <alangrimes@...>
> >>Reply-To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
> >>To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com,  borg_collective@yahoogroups.com,
> >>AI-Arms-Race@yahoogroups.com,
> >>artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com,
>thresearch@yahoogroups.com,
> >>technocalypse@yahoogroups.com,  dcfuture@yahoogroups.com
> >>Subject: [arcondev] Mini on-line course on AI.
> >>Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:40:42 -0500
> >>
> >>I'm thinking of teaching a mini on-line course on AI. -- maybe it's just
> >>a silly idea.
> >>
> >>I've been playing too much Sokoban and I think it has led me to a better
> >>way of explaining some of the ideas I've been working on. To participate
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>Artificial Consciousness Development List Recommended Reading:
>==============================================================
>Alan Turing: The Enigma (May 2000 Edition)
>Andrew Hodges
>Amazon $14.36
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802775802/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
>Terrence W. Deacon
>Amazon $12.76
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393317544/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>Understanding Language Understanding : Computational Models of Reading
>Ashwin Ram and Kenneth Moorman (eds.)
>Amazon $50.00
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262181924/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
>Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze
>Amazon $60.00
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262133601/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>Rethinking Innateness : A Connectionist Perspective on Development
>Jeffrey L. Elman et al
>Amazon $20.00
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/026255030X/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>Exercises in Rethinking Innateness : A Handbook for Connectionist
>Simulations
>Jeffrey L. Elman et al
>Amazon $45.00
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262661055/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>
>I strongly recommend the above books to everyone on this list.
>(Note: The Amazon commission goes directly to fund the
>MindPixel/ai@home Project) Chris McKinstry, Arcondev Moderator
>http://www.mindpixel.com/chris
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Hi Harold,

Do you think an algorithm (no matter how complex) can ever be called
intelligent?  Another way of asking this is, do you consider chess
programs available today to be engaging in "machine thinking"?  If so, how
do you define the term "machine thinking"?

Terren

--- "Harold P. Boushell" <haroldpboushell@...> wrote:

> Stephen Smalley:            02MAR2006
>
> I have much on this subject "AI".
> My thinking goes to methods to take
> WORDS to NUMBERS, with  Genetic Algorithms
> to fill MATRIX string compares, with
> SHORT  TERM  MATRIX vs. LONG TERM MATRIX
> comparisons to perform a "partial differentiation"
> on the strings, which are praised into (SVO, AND VOS),
> [subject verb object, and verb object subject], forms
> with data base comparisons of the numerical "genes"
> within the formatted 65565 sub-groups of meaning.
>
> All this is for machine thinking.  Such that it really
> does know the difference between:
>
> {
>
> Put the pen on the table.
>
> and
>
> Put the table on the pen.
>
> }
>
> and many more examples.
>
> What I am looking for is a Grant for two years
> to work full time on a feasibility study. Some
> used hardware, or new which ever is more
> advantageous, and some software help
> which I feel your agency (NSA) already has
> done many years ago.
>
> This problem is not new, however, I feel
> my approach is new.  Storage seems to be
> a problem.  I believe problem approaches
> 229 billion directories (at or near on line).
> That size of storage is beyond my reach,
> 5.49^14 bytes.  CPUs at 306 GHZ on line.
>
> Please feel free to send this to anyone who
> might know how help me on this subject..
>
>
> I am hoping your “OUTREACH  PROGRAM”
> might be of some use in this area.
> Looking forward to your timely replay.
>
> Harold P Boushell
> haroldpboushell@...
>
>
> *************************************************
> >From: "Harold P. Boushell" <haroldpboushell@...>
> >Reply-To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
> >To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
> >CC: haroldpboushell@...
> >Subject: [arcondev] RE: BINARY ENGLISH WORDS
> >Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:34:29 -0800
> >
> >Hi Alan:    13FEB2006
> >
> >As you can see there is more to this than just ranking the words
> >by size. Remember the Definitions must read forwards and backwards.
> >
> >00001 .RUN "THINK_BUILD_DIRECTORYS"
> >00002 .ZERO = 0
> >00003 .ONE = 1       ***************************************
> >00004 .TWO = 2       ***                                 ***
> >00005 .THREE = 3     ***  "BINARY-WORDS" 00001-01024     ***
> >00006 .FOUR = 4      ***   UBIQUITOUS = ever present     ***
> >00007 .FIVE = 5      ***   without proof - words are     ***
> >00008 .SIX = 6       ***   at hard-wire level thought    ***
> >00009 .SEVEN = 7     ***   start with XXXXX line number. ***
> >00010 .EIGHT = 8     ***                                 ***
> >00011 .NINE = 9      ***************************************
> >00012 .TEN = 10
> >00013 .CARRY = { move to next power of ten }
> >00014
> >00015 .PLUS = "+"
> >00016
> >00017 .SET = { MANY OF((((ICON) OR WORD) OR NUMBER) OR STRING) }
> >00018
> >00019 .THING = { ONE SET }
> >00020
> >00021 .SOMETHING = { un-determined or un-specified thing }
> >00022 .OR = { “IF_NOT_SOMETHING_THEN_SOMETHING” }
> >00023 .ADD = { SOMETHING + SOMETHING }
> >00024
> >00025 .SOME = { ONE TO FIVE SOMETHING SMALL }
> >00026
> >00027
> >00028 .SUBTRACT = { SOMETHING - SOMETHING }
> >00029 .MULTIPLY = { SOMETHING * SOMETHING }
> >00030 .DIVIDE = {SOMETHING / SOMETHING }
> >00031 .NO = { STOP SOMETHING }
> >00032
> >00033 .NOT = { NO SOMETHING }
> >00034
> >00035 .SUB = { under or beneath or subordinate or secondary }
> >00036
> >00037 .AND = SOMETHING ADD SOMETHING
> >00038
> >00039 .STOP = FINISH SOMETHING
> >00040
> >00041 .LINE = .FORMAT(X2,0,0) - FORMAT(X1,0,0)
> >00042
> >00043 .FORMAT(x,y,z) = { front of something and un-mistakable many line
> }
> >00044
> >00045 .THE = ONE OF FORMAT(X,Y,Z) SOMETHING
> >00046
> >00047 .DIGIT = { SET LIKE 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or
> 0 }
> >00048
> >00049 .MUCH = { grate in quantity or extent or degree }
> >00050
> >00051 .SUBSTANCE = { PHYSICAL MATERIAL ESSENCE }
> >00052
> >00053 .NUMBER = { DIGIT SET or "N" }
> >00054
> >00055 .COUNT = NUMBER + 1
> >00056
> >00057 .WITH = FORMAT(X,Y,Z) AND SOMETHING
> >00058
> >00059 .UNION = WITH SOMETHING AND SOMETHING
> >00060
> >00061 .PURE = { foreign mass no and no corruption }
> >00062
> >00063
> >00064
> >00065 .SAME = { COUNT PATH alike }
> >00066
> >00067 .STATE = { SMALL SET MENY DIGIT SOMETHING }
> >00068
> >00069 .FOND = HAS IDEA MUCH CARING
> >00070
> >00071 .LOVE = FOND MUCH STATE
> >00072
> >00073
> >00074
> >00075 .GOD = IN BEGING WAS WORD AND WORD WITH ALL AND WORD WAS ALL
> >00076
> >00077
> >00078
> >00079 .HOLY = ALL WITH WORD ALL WAS WORD ALL WAS PURE GOD WAS HAPPY
> >00080
> >00081
> >00082
> >00083 .GOOD = ALL SAME HOLY LOVE
> >00084
> >00085
> >00086
> >00087 .HAPPY = MUCH GOOD SOMETHING ALL
> >00088
> >00089 .MEMBER = SOMETHING UNION SET ONE
> >00090
> >00091 .LIKE = { MUCH HAPPY MEMBER OF SET }
> >00092
> >00093 .A = ONE SOMETHING
> >00094
> >00095 .ABOUT = ON EVERY SIDE NEAR SOMETHING
> >00096
> >00097 .EQUAL = { THE SAME }
> >00098
> >00099 .LESS = SUB SET SOMETHING
> >00100
> >00101 .FEW = LESS THAN FIVE SOMETHING
> >00102
> >00103 .YES = { like about something }
> >00104
> >00105 .MORE = ADD SOMETHING TO SOMETHING MUCH
> >00106
> >00107 .PATH = { route or course }
> >00108
> >00109 .IF = YES OR NO
> >00110
> >00111 .MANY = { THREE AND MORE }
> >00112
> >00113 .WORK = MOVE MASS PATH FORMAT(X,Y,Z)(X2-X1)
> >00114
> >
> >by for now
> >
> >Harold
> >
> >haroldpboushell@...
> >[ public information not secret OK :) ]
> >
> >
> >**************************************************
> > >From: "Harold P. Boushell" <haroldpboushell@...>
> > >To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
> > >Subject: BINARY ENGLISH WORDS
> > >Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:13:10 -0800
> > >
> > >Hi Alan:    10JAN2006
> > >
> > >I'm still working on my binary words in ENGLISH.
>
=== message truncated ===

Stephen Smalley:            02MAR2006

I have much on this subject "AI".
My thinking goes to methods to take
WORDS to NUMBERS, with  Genetic Algorithms
to fill MATRIX string compares, with
SHORT  TERM  MATRIX vs. LONG TERM MATRIX
comparisons to perform a "partial differentiation"
on the strings, which are praised into (SVO, AND VOS),
[subject verb object, and verb object subject], forms
with data base comparisons of the numerical "genes"
within the formatted 65565 sub-groups of meaning.

All this is for machine thinking.  Such that it really
does know the difference between:

{

Put the pen on the table.

and

Put the table on the pen.

}

and many more examples.

What I am looking for is a Grant for two years
to work full time on a feasibility study. Some
used hardware, or new which ever is more
advantageous, and some software help
which I feel your agency (NSA) already has
done many years ago.

This problem is not new, however, I feel
my approach is new.  Storage seems to be
a problem.  I believe problem approaches
229 billion directories (at or near on line).
That size of storage is beyond my reach,
5.49^14 bytes.  CPUs at 306 GHZ on line.

Please feel free to send this to anyone who
might know how help me on this subject..


I am hoping your “OUTREACH  PROGRAM”
might be of some use in this area.
Looking forward to your timely replay.

Harold P Boushell
haroldpboushell@...


*************************************************
>From: "Harold P. Boushell" <haroldpboushell@...>
>Reply-To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
>To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
>CC: haroldpboushell@...
>Subject: [arcondev] RE: BINARY ENGLISH WORDS
>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:34:29 -0800
>
>Hi Alan:    13FEB2006
>
>As you can see there is more to this than just ranking the words
>by size. Remember the Definitions must read forwards and backwards.
>
>00001 .RUN "THINK_BUILD_DIRECTORYS"
>00002 .ZERO = 0
>00003 .ONE = 1       ***************************************
>00004 .TWO = 2       ***                                 ***
>00005 .THREE = 3     ***  "BINARY-WORDS" 00001-01024     ***
>00006 .FOUR = 4      ***   UBIQUITOUS = ever present     ***
>00007 .FIVE = 5      ***   without proof - words are     ***
>00008 .SIX = 6       ***   at hard-wire level thought    ***
>00009 .SEVEN = 7     ***   start with XXXXX line number. ***
>00010 .EIGHT = 8     ***                                 ***
>00011 .NINE = 9      ***************************************
>00012 .TEN = 10
>00013 .CARRY = { move to next power of ten }
>00014
>00015 .PLUS = "+"
>00016
>00017 .SET = { MANY OF((((ICON) OR WORD) OR NUMBER) OR STRING) }
>00018
>00019 .THING = { ONE SET }
>00020
>00021 .SOMETHING = { un-determined or un-specified thing }
>00022 .OR = { “IF_NOT_SOMETHING_THEN_SOMETHING” }
>00023 .ADD = { SOMETHING + SOMETHING }
>00024
>00025 .SOME = { ONE TO FIVE SOMETHING SMALL }
>00026
>00027
>00028 .SUBTRACT = { SOMETHING - SOMETHING }
>00029 .MULTIPLY = { SOMETHING * SOMETHING }
>00030 .DIVIDE = {SOMETHING / SOMETHING }
>00031 .NO = { STOP SOMETHING }
>00032
>00033 .NOT = { NO SOMETHING }
>00034
>00035 .SUB = { under or beneath or subordinate or secondary }
>00036
>00037 .AND = SOMETHING ADD SOMETHING
>00038
>00039 .STOP = FINISH SOMETHING
>00040
>00041 .LINE = .FORMAT(X2,0,0) - FORMAT(X1,0,0)
>00042
>00043 .FORMAT(x,y,z) = { front of something and un-mistakable many line }
>00044
>00045 .THE = ONE OF FORMAT(X,Y,Z) SOMETHING
>00046
>00047 .DIGIT = { SET LIKE 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 0 }
>00048
>00049 .MUCH = { grate in quantity or extent or degree }
>00050
>00051 .SUBSTANCE = { PHYSICAL MATERIAL ESSENCE }
>00052
>00053 .NUMBER = { DIGIT SET or "N" }
>00054
>00055 .COUNT = NUMBER + 1
>00056
>00057 .WITH = FORMAT(X,Y,Z) AND SOMETHING
>00058
>00059 .UNION = WITH SOMETHING AND SOMETHING
>00060
>00061 .PURE = { foreign mass no and no corruption }
>00062
>00063
>00064
>00065 .SAME = { COUNT PATH alike }
>00066
>00067 .STATE = { SMALL SET MENY DIGIT SOMETHING }
>00068
>00069 .FOND = HAS IDEA MUCH CARING
>00070
>00071 .LOVE = FOND MUCH STATE
>00072
>00073
>00074
>00075 .GOD = IN BEGING WAS WORD AND WORD WITH ALL AND WORD WAS ALL
>00076
>00077
>00078
>00079 .HOLY = ALL WITH WORD ALL WAS WORD ALL WAS PURE GOD WAS HAPPY
>00080
>00081
>00082
>00083 .GOOD = ALL SAME HOLY LOVE
>00084
>00085
>00086
>00087 .HAPPY = MUCH GOOD SOMETHING ALL
>00088
>00089 .MEMBER = SOMETHING UNION SET ONE
>00090
>00091 .LIKE = { MUCH HAPPY MEMBER OF SET }
>00092
>00093 .A = ONE SOMETHING
>00094
>00095 .ABOUT = ON EVERY SIDE NEAR SOMETHING
>00096
>00097 .EQUAL = { THE SAME }
>00098
>00099 .LESS = SUB SET SOMETHING
>00100
>00101 .FEW = LESS THAN FIVE SOMETHING
>00102
>00103 .YES = { like about something }
>00104
>00105 .MORE = ADD SOMETHING TO SOMETHING MUCH
>00106
>00107 .PATH = { route or course }
>00108
>00109 .IF = YES OR NO
>00110
>00111 .MANY = { THREE AND MORE }
>00112
>00113 .WORK = MOVE MASS PATH FORMAT(X,Y,Z)(X2-X1)
>00114
>
>by for now
>
>Harold
>
>haroldpboushell@...
>[ public information not secret OK :) ]
>
>
>**************************************************
> >From: "Harold P. Boushell" <haroldpboushell@...>
> >To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: BINARY ENGLISH WORDS
> >Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:13:10 -0800
> >
> >Hi Alan:    10JAN2006
> >
> >I'm still working on my binary words in ENGLISH.
> >There are 1024 now.  Simple concept, just
> >make a list in which to define all other English
> >words.  Definitions must read forwards and backwards.
> >
> >Backwards so computer can look up the "229 billions"
> >directories of combinations etc.
> >
> >Send me a e-mail at haroldpboushell@...
> >
> >by:
> >
> >Harold
> >
> >
> >
> >*************************************
> >>From: Alan Grimes <alangrimes@...>
> >>Reply-To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
> >>To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com,  borg_collective@yahoogroups.com,
> >>AI-Arms-Race@yahoogroups.com,
> >>artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com,
>thresearch@yahoogroups.com,
> >>technocalypse@yahoogroups.com,  dcfuture@yahoogroups.com
> >>Subject: [arcondev] Mini on-line course on AI.
> >>Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:40:42 -0500
> >>
> >>I'm thinking of teaching a mini on-line course on AI. -- maybe it's just
> >>a silly idea.
> >>
> >>I've been playing too much Sokoban and I think it has led me to a better
> >>way of explaining some of the ideas I've been working on. To participate
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>Artificial Consciousness Development List Recommended Reading:
>==============================================================
>Alan Turing: The Enigma (May 2000 Edition)
>Andrew Hodges
>Amazon $14.36
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802775802/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
>Terrence W. Deacon
>Amazon $12.76
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393317544/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>Understanding Language Understanding : Computational Models of Reading
>Ashwin Ram and Kenneth Moorman (eds.)
>Amazon $50.00
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262181924/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
>Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze
>Amazon $60.00
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262133601/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>Rethinking Innateness : A Connectionist Perspective on Development
>Jeffrey L. Elman et al
>Amazon $20.00
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/026255030X/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>Exercises in Rethinking Innateness : A Handbook for Connectionist
>Simulations
>Jeffrey L. Elman et al
>Amazon $45.00
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262661055/mindpixecorporat
>==============================================================
>
>I strongly recommend the above books to everyone on this list.
>(Note: The Amazon commission goes directly to fund the
>MindPixel/ai@home Project) Chris McKinstry, Arcondev Moderator
>http://www.mindpixel.com/chris
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Hi Alan:    13FEB2006

As you can see there is more to this than just ranking the words
by size. Remember the Definitions must read forwards and backwards.

00001 .RUN "THINK_BUILD_DIRECTORYS"
00002 .ZERO = 0
00003 .ONE = 1       ***************************************
00004 .TWO = 2       ***                                 ***
00005 .THREE = 3     ***  "BINARY-WORDS" 00001-01024     ***
00006 .FOUR = 4      ***   UBIQUITOUS = ever present     ***
00007 .FIVE = 5      ***   without proof - words are     ***
00008 .SIX = 6       ***   at hard-wire level thought    ***
00009 .SEVEN = 7     ***   start with XXXXX line number. ***
00010 .EIGHT = 8     ***                                 ***
00011 .NINE = 9      ***************************************
00012 .TEN = 10
00013 .CARRY = { move to next power of ten }
00014
00015 .PLUS = "+"
00016
00017 .SET = { MANY OF((((ICON) OR WORD) OR NUMBER) OR STRING) }
00018
00019 .THING = { ONE SET }
00020
00021 .SOMETHING = { un-determined or un-specified thing }
00022 .OR = { “IF_NOT_SOMETHING_THEN_SOMETHING” }
00023 .ADD = { SOMETHING + SOMETHING }
00024
00025 .SOME = { ONE TO FIVE SOMETHING SMALL }
00026
00027
00028 .SUBTRACT = { SOMETHING - SOMETHING }
00029 .MULTIPLY = { SOMETHING * SOMETHING }
00030 .DIVIDE = {SOMETHING / SOMETHING }
00031 .NO = { STOP SOMETHING }
00032
00033 .NOT = { NO SOMETHING }
00034
00035 .SUB = { under or beneath or subordinate or secondary }
00036
00037 .AND = SOMETHING ADD SOMETHING
00038
00039 .STOP = FINISH SOMETHING
00040
00041 .LINE = .FORMAT(X2,0,0) - FORMAT(X1,0,0)
00042
00043 .FORMAT(x,y,z) = { front of something and un-mistakable many line }
00044
00045 .THE = ONE OF FORMAT(X,Y,Z) SOMETHING
00046
00047 .DIGIT = { SET LIKE 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 0 }
00048
00049 .MUCH = { grate in quantity or extent or degree }
00050
00051 .SUBSTANCE = { PHYSICAL MATERIAL ESSENCE }
00052
00053 .NUMBER = { DIGIT SET or "N" }
00054
00055 .COUNT = NUMBER + 1
00056
00057 .WITH = FORMAT(X,Y,Z) AND SOMETHING
00058
00059 .UNION = WITH SOMETHING AND SOMETHING
00060
00061 .PURE = { foreign mass no and no corruption }
00062
00063
00064
00065 .SAME = { COUNT PATH alike }
00066
00067 .STATE = { SMALL SET MENY DIGIT SOMETHING }
00068
00069 .FOND = HAS IDEA MUCH CARING
00070
00071 .LOVE = FOND MUCH STATE
00072
00073
00074
00075 .GOD = IN BEGING WAS WORD AND WORD WITH ALL AND WORD WAS ALL
00076
00077
00078
00079 .HOLY = ALL WITH WORD ALL WAS WORD ALL WAS PURE GOD WAS HAPPY
00080
00081
00082
00083 .GOOD = ALL SAME HOLY LOVE
00084
00085
00086
00087 .HAPPY = MUCH GOOD SOMETHING ALL
00088
00089 .MEMBER = SOMETHING UNION SET ONE
00090
00091 .LIKE = { MUCH HAPPY MEMBER OF SET }
00092
00093 .A = ONE SOMETHING
00094
00095 .ABOUT = ON EVERY SIDE NEAR SOMETHING
00096
00097 .EQUAL = { THE SAME }
00098
00099 .LESS = SUB SET SOMETHING
00100
00101 .FEW = LESS THAN FIVE SOMETHING
00102
00103 .YES = { like about something }
00104
00105 .MORE = ADD SOMETHING TO SOMETHING MUCH
00106
00107 .PATH = { route or course }
00108
00109 .IF = YES OR NO
00110
00111 .MANY = { THREE AND MORE }
00112
00113 .WORK = MOVE MASS PATH FORMAT(X,Y,Z)(X2-X1)
00114

by for now

Harold

haroldpboushell@... [ public information not secret OK :) ]


**************************************************
>From: "Harold P. Boushell" <haroldpboushell@...>
>To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: BINARY ENGLISH WORDS
>Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:13:10 -0800
>
>Hi Alan:    10JAN2006
>
>I'm still working on my binary words in ENGLISH.
>There are 1024 now.  Simple concept, just
>make a list in which to define all other English
>words.  Definitions must read forwards and backwards.
>
>Backwards so computer can look up the "229 billions"
>directories of combinations etc.
>
>Send me a e-mail at haroldpboushell@...
>
>by:
>
>Harold
>
>
>
>*************************************
>>From: Alan Grimes <alangrimes@...>
>>Reply-To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
>>To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com,  borg_collective@yahoogroups.com,
>>AI-Arms-Race@yahoogroups.com,
>>artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com,  thresearch@yahoogroups.com,
>>technocalypse@yahoogroups.com,  dcfuture@yahoogroups.com
>>Subject: [arcondev] Mini on-line course on AI.
>>Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:40:42 -0500
>>
>>I'm thinking of teaching a mini on-line course on AI. -- maybe it's just
>>a silly idea.
>>
>>I've been playing too much Sokoban and I think it has led me to a better
>>way of explaining some of the ideas I've been working on. To participate
>>
>
>

Hi Alan:    10JAN2006

I'm still working on my binary words in ENGLISH.
There are 1024 now.  Simple concept, just
make a list in which to define all other English
words.  Definitions must read forwards and backwards.

Backwards so computer can look up the "229 billions"
directories of combinations etc.

Send me a e-mail at haroldpboushell@...

by:

Harold

ps: NEED YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS NOT THE GROUPS.


*************************************
>From: Alan Grimes <alangrimes@...>
>Reply-To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com
>To: arcondev@yahoogroups.com,  borg_collective@yahoogroups.com,
>AI-Arms-Race@yahoogroups.com,  artificialintelligencegroup@yahoogroups.com,
>  thresearch@yahoogroups.com,  technocalypse@yahoogroups.com,
>dcfuture@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [arcondev] Mini on-line course on AI.
>Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:40:42 -0500
>
>I'm thinking of teaching a mini on-line course on AI. -- maybe it's just
>a silly idea.
>
>I've been playing too much Sokoban and I think it has led me to a better
>way of explaining some of the ideas I've been working on. To participate
>

I'm thinking of teaching a mini on-line course on AI. -- maybe it's just
a silly idea.

I've been playing too much Sokoban and I think it has led me to a better
way of explaining some of the ideas I've been working on. To participate
in this course, assuming it gets going, you'll need a version of
sokoban. (preferably: http://easysok.sourceforge.net/ ). Several
variants of a version of Sokoban are also available for Squeak (
www.squeak.org )

The course text will be the AI chapter in "C: The Complete Reference" by
  Herbert Schildt. -- a book every programmer should have anyway... I
don't care which edition you choose.

The Easysok implementation is especially interesting on account of its
implementation of the AI algorithm in Schildt's book.

Recomended reading includes: "On Intelligence" and "Godel Escher Bach,
an Eternal Golden Braid". I have some of my own writings on the subject
which I will bring up in the latter part of the course. My aim is not to
toot my own horn but rather to illustrate the evidence which leads me to
my current best guess.

If this gets going, I'll be using my own research list for the purpose,
now in its sixth year of existence...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thresearch/

The only thing I want in return is your honest effort to complete the
course. I hate it when someone comes up to me and says they want to
learn something only to wimp out when the material starts to get
interesting. =\

--
Don't let your schoolwork get in the way of your learning.

http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/

om

In order to help me get my mind off my despondency over flunking out of
CS350 again, I write this post. Before I get to my subject, I need to
make it clear that it is not because I am lazy but because I'm being
shafted. I've flunked so many classes that it has become a joke to me. I
like to make my failures spectacular too. I don't just stop working
after I learn there's no chance to pull up my grade and go quietly into
a menial dead-end job, instead I attend every single class session right
up until the very end, there being more glory in going down in flames
than bailing out... I turn in every assignment even knowing it's futile.
When I get my F I am not ashamed of it. I don't say "if only I could
have worked harder". I stand up proudly and say, I did my part, I'm
being shafted. This class, is a sterling example, even though I'm past
the days when I'm OK with this type of F. I logged two hours on the
first assignment. The program worked perfectly. The documentation was
flawless, the forms were filled out. The test cases were there. I got a
50. On the second project, I spent four and a half hours, (258 minutes)
It was designed according to the spec. (Apparently I missed one of the
computations because no input or output was specified explicitly.) The
numbers it did compute were absolutely correct. It was packaged with the
standard automatic build system that _ALL_ GNU projects use. Therefore I
got -30 just because the grader couldn't open the README file and, with
other mark-downs, ended up with a 32. It's probably the second lowest
grade I ever worked for. The first assignment I did for the previous
time I took the course was almost as good, It earned me no points
whatsoever. Do I deserve this?

Sorry for getting side-tracked but I can't help but comment on my own
life going down the drain. =(

om

The subject is, again AI. I have been reading Jeff Hawkins' book "On
Intelligence". For the parts of the book he's not talking about his cat,
he presents a very good theory that broadly agrees with what I've been
able to come up with myself. My subject, however, is not about on what
points I do and don't agree with Hawkins about but rather in _how_ my
thinking on the subject differs from his.

The meat of his book (which is not about his cat or "Somewhere Over the
Rainbow".) is about his "memory prediction model" of artificial
intelligence. He believes that the brain's fundamental operation is that
of making predictions about things. He seems to believe that this is a
new model of computation and that our present computers are somehow
inadequate to the task (more on that point later).

His choice of concepts has had the effect of directing his thinking
towards how the brain accomplishes this predictive task. This focus has
had the benefit of leading him to focus on how failures in recognition
at lower stages in the the cortical heirarchy can lead to a shift in the
attentional state of the mind towards that stimulus. This is an
interesting line of thought that I had not yet examined in great depth.

In my own study, I had decided to call what is essentially the same
idea, an "abstraction". The idea being that abstractions capture
information, in general, and that the process of detecting instances of
abstractions in the environment (and in lower areas of the brain) can,
in some instances, be called "prediction". The focus of my own work has
been on determining how to extract information from the environment. I
make no claims as to the relative merit of our two approaches.

The interesting thing here is the differences in how the varrious AI
researchers think about their subject. The terms we choose aren't as
superficial as they may seem. To be truly effective at what we do we
need to be aware of how we approach the concepts we use to understand
what we are studying. Ideally, each of us will develop several
ontologicly distinct theories in paralell and use them to cover the
holes in the others. I don't suggest that is an easy task.

[ I have a note card of about ten points that I want to cover in this
essay, finding the most "natural" ordering for them is prooving to be
non-trivial... om... ]

Keeping multiple cross-refferanced ontologies is a step in the right
direction. Just as important is taking a step away from the wrong
direction. Everybody who's worked in AI has run into crackpots. Most of
us have run into the same crackpot. These people are so enamoured of
having their name attached to a theory alegedly about AI, that they
don't care if their idea is rubish. Other people in the field tend to be
more diciplined but not nearly as much as they really should be. One of
the most neglected tasks in the field of AI is the critical evaluation
of concepts and theories.

Instead, what few discussions on AI I've seen, tend to focus on
shoehorning the facts into the trendiest theory or try to design a
system to implement utter nonsense. My favorite example of this type is
the notion of "Self-consciousness" or "self awareness". The idea being
that the brain magicly achieves intelligence the moment it becomes "self
aware". This notion can be found in many works of fiction as well as
reams of discussion on the internet.

What exactly is self awareness anyway? The brain is devoid of sensory
organs, so it's not that... People have been trying (and mostly failing)
to figure out how they think for aeons so self awareness is not the act
of viewing one's own thoughts. I'm running out of ideas here but the
point is that as soon as one tries to evaluate many of these concepts
critically (as opposed to struggeling to find supporting evidence for.),
they go "poof". These are concepts that are beyond useless, beyond even
false, they're outright lies people tell themselves in order to deal
with their own existential angst and, in doing so, obstruct any progress
towards AI.

We can follow the trail of bad ideas out onto the factory floor to see
the true destruction that has been wraught. At some point between the
categorical sylogism and the invention of boolean algebra, the notion of
intelligence has changed from the act of making order out of chaos to
the process of making logical deductions. While it is true, that in
humans there is a positive corolation between how smart we think someone
is and how well they perform logic. What has only become obvious in
recient years is the focus on logic, deduction, and ontologies (as the
substrates of the AIs themselves), are inadequate to produce real AI.

Some people are good at logic and others such as the people who are
generally considered to be incapable of logic (such as our president...)
  are still considered human... (mostly..) indicates that the primary
function of the brain must be in performing operations on which logic
can be built rather than logic itself. When one thinks about it one can
almost be amused at all the attempts to create the cause [ what the
brain really does ] out of elaborate constructions of the effect [
symbolic reasoning].

A critical thing to keep in mind is that the brain was produced by an
unintelligent process. This is evinced by the fact that while the brain
contains plenty of concepts (with the exception of the example of George
Bush), the brain is composed of utterly no concepts. We need concepts to
understand the brain but in using such concepts we must not forget that
these concepts are artificial constructs intended to bring some level of
tractability to the vast complexity of the brain. Unfortunately, we
don't yet know which details we can safely ignore, or the relative
importance of details that are important.

Instead of looking for better concepts and deeper understandings, people
tend to blame the weather. This is the heading I've decided to give all
the Roger Penroses of the world who claim that intelligence will require
some bizarre new type of computation, quantum gravity effects, and the
like. It also includes people who claim that AI requires computers
sufficiently advanced to be so far in the future that they're in little
danger of being discredited before people have forgotten their names.
These people are just plain annoying. They are trying to hide their
cognitive deficitts behind lame excuses. Other than that, they can
safely be ignored.

The people who really get on my nerves, however, are the people who
aren't even trying to work on AI yet call it AI... (There are also
people who claim not to be working AI but are, infact, producing the
most valuble and promising research in the field!) They are the people
who caused people such as Ben Goertzel to coin the term "AGI"
(Artificial General Intelligence), and to use phrases such as "Real AI"
as I did above.

While these people may have, at some time, been working on AI, what they
eventually produced will, by their own admission, never come anywhere
near human intelligence yet they still call it AI resarch. A different
bunch of the same breed is actively trying to pawn off things such as
NLP and what have you for applications that really require true AI.


The last group of people who think about AI I want to cover are the
singularitarians, especially the SIAI cultists. There are people out
there who get, for lack of a better word, dazzled by the prospects of AI
and think it will solve all of their problems in an afternoon. This is a
somewhat bizarre line of thinking. The current cult leader is Eliezer
Yudkowsky. In his long rambling essays, (about a hundred times longer
than this piece but hardly saying as much...) he goes on about a
speculated capability of his AI to simulate the development of your mind
  into the future in order to determine what you really want when you ask
it to do something for you. -- He expresses about a hundred permutations
of this basic idea but that's the gist... He supports this idea with
claims about the scale of raw computation available to the AI.

He presents a number of arguments about the subject which do have some
merit. However, he overlooks and vigorously denies the fundamental
undesirability of such an arrangement (its the central tenant of his
religion). A much more plausible (And desirable) role for an AI is that
of a highly adept R&D department. The client/user will need to set goals
and monitor the progress and logistics of achieving those goals. Far
from reducing us to mere dependents, the best AI will require the best
from us, our best rationality, our best morals, our best intentions.
There is no such thing as salvation, nor is there such a thing as a
savior (as Eliezer paints himself out to be).

Transhumanist singularitarians seem to think that the AI will respond to
requests such as "make me godlike" or "upload me into virtual paradise."
The AI may indeed do something but it won't be what you wanted. The
typical notion of transhumanism requires that you, at least in part,
become the AI. Uploaders tend to talk about the speedups they claim to
be possible with whole brain emulation. They talk about uploads being
able to do a thousand years of work in a minute. (or some speedup on
such an incredible scale). What they don't seem to consider is what it
would actually be like to sit at a simulated desk working on a
thousand-year project.

In the more desirable neural interface scenereo, you will have to train
your mind to be able to interface with the artificial substrate and get
useful work from it. Taken to its logical conclusion, your mind will end
up being something almost entirely alien.

I guess what I'm trying to reiterate here is that you don't get sumpfin
  for nutin... When I'm not busy flunking classes, I make myself busy
working on AI, and its related subprojects. I don't pretend that when I
achieve it, I'll be any less busy on what comes next.

Thanks for your time.

om

--
Friends don't let friends use GCC 3.4.4
GCC 3.3.6 produces code that's twice as fast on x86!

http://users.rcn.com/alangrimes/

Hello,

Last spring, before my hard drive crashed, I started hacking togeather
an workbench for bootstrapping an AI in Squeak. ( www.squeak.org ).

My only notable accomplishment from that effort was to hack togeather a
black and white "laplankian" algorithm (I don't remember the name, I'd
have to search my HD for it..) It wasn't a very good implementation but
it succeded as a proof of concept.

I now have the time and resources to resume the effort.

I have decded that the best approach for a next phase is to repair the
badly-broken X-server for Squeak, use it to run an instance of ZSNES, a
super Nintendo Emulator, at it's minimum resolution, and then map the
controls into my AI.

My hope is that I can find a game that is sufficiently "Learn as you
play" that a purely learning-based AI can succede in demonstrating some
competiency at playing the game.

My tentative selection in that regards is Zelda (3), While there are a
number of places where language skills would be very useful, it mostly
relies on pictograms and graphical gestures to communicate the most
important information.

The specific performance goals of this project are:

A. To demonstrate an AI system that can interract with the game in
scaled real time. and has the capability to -- I intend to down-clock
the game so that the other CPU can have enough time to process the
stimuli at human-equivalent speed. In this regards the limiting factor
is my patience and not the available CPU power.

B. To show that the AI is capable of reacting to its environment, for
example that it can detect incomming attacks and make a recognisable
effort to avoid them.

C. That it is able to navigate in the game world, that it can
demonstrate the ability to find appropriate paths through obsticles...
-- this would be demonstrated if it can navigate through an environment
without resorting to some brute-force algorithm.


These are the minimum success criteria.... The project will be an
astounding success if Link (the charactor's name) can make it out of the
first dungeon... If we leave it alone for a few days and come back to
find him facing off against Gannon (the final "Boss") then we've got
something really interesting on our hands... (I'm not expecting that,
well er, trying not to expect that. ;)

I'm not sure wheather I want an AI raised in this way out in the real
world... It might carelessly kill someone expecting that he would be
carrying faeries who would bring him back to life... =P (who wouldn't!)


Anyway, the research goals for this project are:

1. To develop a working cybernetic loop.
2. To test out my crazy theories about learning algorithms.
3. To discover what types of motovational programming are required to
cause the AI to demonstrate enough curriosity that it will explore its
environment and hence be able to discover what it needs to get around
the game. -- as opposed to some degenerate behavior such as doing
nothing at all or performing repetitive behaviors in areas where there
are few dangers.



To get this to work I need major help in untangling the brokenness of
the current Squeak X-server, (It is quite severe. =(   )

I also could use some experts with the X protocol in general and getting
the ugly ugly details worked out. -- that's been a killer in my previous
efforts.

Kavitha:

Would you please answer my specific questions?

Thank you

Darryl Turner


Darryl Turner <darryl_turner@...> wrote:
I doubt I shall have the resources to travel to India.  However, I do have some
breakthrough technology in this field.  Would it be possible to submit a paper? 
Could you send me something I could use as a format template?

Darryl Lee Turner
1811 Folsom Street, Suite 209
Boulder, Colorado 80302-5726
303-440-8369


Kavitha Mohanraj <kavitham@...> wrote:

<please accept my apology if you have received multiple copies of same>

                            K B C S 2004
      INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
                           Hyderabad, India.

                    Call for Tutorial Participation
         [http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/pretutorials.shtml]

As a part of KBCS-2004, an international conference on Knowledge Based Computer
Systems, two full day and one half day pre-conference tutorials are being held
on December 19, 2004.

The tutorials for the conference are:
1. Speech Recognition and Synthesis [Duration: Full Day]

Speakers:
   - Prof. Samudravijaya K., TIFR, Mumbai, India.
   - Mr. S. P. Kishore, IIIT Hyderabad, India and LTI CMU, USA.
   - Dr. R. N. V. Sitaram HP Labs, Bangalore, India.

2. Pattern Evolution Algorithms for Search, Optimization and Data Mining
[Duration: Full Day]

Speakers:
   - Dr. V. Sunderarajan, CDAC Pune, India.
   - Dr. V. K. Jayaraman, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.

3. EVOLVABLE HARDWARE - Implication on Engineering Design and Intelligence of
Autonomous Systems [Duration: Half Day]

Speaker:
   - Prof. Mircea Gh. Negoita, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), New
Zealand.

Note: A brief description of each tutorial is available below after the contact
information.

Tutorial Venue:
--------------
IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019, A.P., India.

Registration Fee details:
------------------------
Half-day tutorial:
   * Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 1500/- (50$)
   * Other institutions : Rs. 2500/- (80$)
   * Students : Rs 500/- (25$)

Full-day tutorial:
   * Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 2200/- (70$)
   * Others institutions : Rs. 3500/- (120$)
   * Students : Rs 800/- (40$)

For registration details, please visit the
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/registration.shtml

Contact Information:
-------------------
KBCS-2004 Secretariat,
C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth,
Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,
Sector 7, CBD Belapur,
Navi Mumbai - 400 614, INDIA.
E-mail: kbcs@...
Phone: +91-22-27560013
Fax: +91-22-27560004
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

Tutorial 1: Speech Recognition and Synthesis
--------------------------------------------

The tutorial will introduce two important aspects of human machine interaction
through voice: Automatic speech recognition and Text-to-speech systems. The
technical tutorial, spanning in two parts, will cover fundamentals as well as
techniques for building both speech recognition systems and synthesis systems.

This will enable participants to gain sound knowledge of speech signal
processing as well as design of speech recognition and speech synthesis systems.
It will also put them into position of building their own recognition and
synthesis systems.

About the Speakers:

Prof. Samudravijaya K. has been working in the area of spoken language
processing at TIFR, Mumbai. His research interests include robust speech
recognition, speaker verification, speech database and cursive script
recognition. He received his Ph.D. degree from Mumbai University in 1986.

Mr. S. P. Kishore has been working in the area of speech processing at IIIT
Hyderabad and also at LTI, Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests
include speech processing and machine learning. He received MS (by Research)
degree from IIT Madras in 2001 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at LTI,
Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Sitaram is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India working in Language
Technologies and Applications. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Communication
Engineering, specialized in "Speech recognition", from IISc, Bangalore. His
interests include speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialog systems
and real time implementation of these in embedded and telephony platforms.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut1.shtml

Tutorial 2: Pattern Evolution Algorithms for Search, Optimization and Data
Mining
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
-

The tutorial would cover the Monte Carlo algorithms, genetic algorithms and ant
miner with support vector machine in detail. Emphasis will be given on learning
and using them for search, optimization and data mining purposes. A number of
examples and illustrations will be made including Bioinformatics applications
like protein structure prediction, classification of protein structures,
Chemoinformatics applications like Quantitative Structure Activity
Relationships, Medical diagnosis, and abnormality & fault detection in chemical
processes.

About the speakers:

Dr. Sunderarajan is the group coordinator of Scientific and Engg. Computing
Group at CDAC, Pune, India. He has a Ph. D. in Physics from Anna University. He
has been working in the field of protein structure prediction using GA and
electronic structure calculations for past several years and has published about
45 paper in international journals.

Dr. Jayaraman is a senior Scientist at the Chemical Engineering and Process
Development division of the National Chemical Laboratory. His research interests
include mathematical modeling of chemically reacting systems; Process
Optimization, Control & Monitoring; Modeling and Design of Chemical &
Bioreactors; and application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to
Bioinformatics and chemically reacting systems.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut2.shtml

Tutorial 3: EVOLVABLE HARDWARE - Implication on Engineering Design and
Intelligence of Autonomous Systems
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
-------

The tutorial will discuss Framework for Evolutionary Computation (EC) and its
application as Evolvable Hardware (EHW). It will cover EHW definition, general
considerations and EHW classification, technology support of EHW and advanced
type of FPGA, hardware architectures with intrinsic EC like embryological
architectures, emergent functionality architectures, evolvable fault tolerant
systems, Parallel evolvable architectures of Higuchi type, and evolvable
architectures on functional level. The tutorial will also cover application of
GA for design of EHW design elements with local improvement of chromosomes
applied for optimization of evolved configuration in RLD (Reconfiguration Logic
Devices) block of EHW architectures.

About the speaker:

Prof. Negoita received his Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of
Bucharest (TUB), Romania in 1985. He is currently a Professor in The School of
Information Technology, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), New Zealand
and the Director of Centre for Computational Intelligence at WelTec. His
research interests and specializations includes Intelligent Hybrid Systems,
Evolvable Hardware, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Genetic algorithms. He is a
member of KES Executive Committee, an Associate editor of KES International
Journal, and an Associate editor of International Journal of Intelligent
Automation and Soft Computing.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut3.shtml

regs,
Kavitha
==============================================================
KBCS-2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs/kbcs2004/
---------------------------------------------------------------
Kavitha M, KBCS division, C-DAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST)
E-mail: kavitham@...; Ph. No: +91-22-2620 16 06 x:372
===============================================================





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Alan Turing: The Enigma (May 2000 Edition)
Andrew Hodges
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The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
Terrence W. Deacon
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==============================================================
Understanding Language Understanding : Computational Models of Reading
Ashwin Ram and Kenneth Moorman (eds.)
Amazon $50.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262181924/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze
Amazon $60.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262133601/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
Rethinking Innateness : A Connectionist Perspective on Development
Jeffrey L. Elman et al
Amazon $20.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/026255030X/mindpixecorporat
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Exercises in Rethinking Innateness : A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations
Jeffrey L. Elman et al
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==============================================================

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The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
Terrence W. Deacon
Amazon $12.76
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393317544/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
Understanding Language Understanding : Computational Models of Reading
Ashwin Ram and Kenneth Moorman (eds.)
Amazon $50.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262181924/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze
Amazon $60.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262133601/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
Rethinking Innateness : A Connectionist Perspective on Development
Jeffrey L. Elman et al
Amazon $20.00
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==============================================================
Exercises in Rethinking Innateness : A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations
Jeffrey L. Elman et al
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I doubt I shall have the resources to travel to India.  However, I do have some
breakthrough technology in this field.  Would it be possible to submit a paper? 
Could you send me something I could use as a format template?

Darryl Lee Turner
1811 Folsom Street, Suite 209
Boulder, Colorado 80302-5726
303-440-8369


Kavitha Mohanraj <kavitham@...> wrote:

<please accept my apology if you have received multiple copies of same>

                            K B C S 2004
      INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
                           Hyderabad, India.

                    Call for Tutorial Participation
         [http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/pretutorials.shtml]

As a part of KBCS-2004, an international conference on Knowledge Based Computer
Systems, two full day and one half day pre-conference tutorials are being held
on December 19, 2004.

The tutorials for the conference are:
1. Speech Recognition and Synthesis [Duration: Full Day]

Speakers:
   - Prof. Samudravijaya K., TIFR, Mumbai, India.
   - Mr. S. P. Kishore, IIIT Hyderabad, India and LTI CMU, USA.
   - Dr. R. N. V. Sitaram HP Labs, Bangalore, India.

2. Pattern Evolution Algorithms for Search, Optimization and Data Mining
[Duration: Full Day]

Speakers:
   - Dr. V. Sunderarajan, CDAC Pune, India.
   - Dr. V. K. Jayaraman, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.

3. EVOLVABLE HARDWARE - Implication on Engineering Design and Intelligence of
Autonomous Systems [Duration: Half Day]

Speaker:
   - Prof. Mircea Gh. Negoita, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), New
Zealand.

Note: A brief description of each tutorial is available below after the contact
information.

Tutorial Venue:
--------------
IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019, A.P., India.

Registration Fee details:
------------------------
Half-day tutorial:
   * Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 1500/- (50$)
   * Other institutions : Rs. 2500/- (80$)
   * Students : Rs 500/- (25$)

Full-day tutorial:
   * Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 2200/- (70$)
   * Others institutions : Rs. 3500/- (120$)
   * Students : Rs 800/- (40$)

For registration details, please visit the
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/registration.shtml

Contact Information:
-------------------
KBCS-2004 Secretariat,
C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth,
Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,
Sector 7, CBD Belapur,
Navi Mumbai - 400 614, INDIA.
E-mail: kbcs@...
Phone: +91-22-27560013
Fax: +91-22-27560004
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

Tutorial 1: Speech Recognition and Synthesis
--------------------------------------------

The tutorial will introduce two important aspects of human machine interaction
through voice: Automatic speech recognition and Text-to-speech systems. The
technical tutorial, spanning in two parts, will cover fundamentals as well as
techniques for building both speech recognition systems and synthesis systems.

This will enable participants to gain sound knowledge of speech signal
processing as well as design of speech recognition and speech synthesis systems.
It will also put them into position of building their own recognition and
synthesis systems.

About the Speakers:

Prof. Samudravijaya K. has been working in the area of spoken language
processing at TIFR, Mumbai. His research interests include robust speech
recognition, speaker verification, speech database and cursive script
recognition. He received his Ph.D. degree from Mumbai University in 1986.

Mr. S. P. Kishore has been working in the area of speech processing at IIIT
Hyderabad and also at LTI, Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests
include speech processing and machine learning. He received MS (by Research)
degree from IIT Madras in 2001 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at LTI,
Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Sitaram is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India working in Language
Technologies and Applications. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Communication
Engineering, specialized in "Speech recognition", from IISc, Bangalore. His
interests include speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialog systems
and real time implementation of these in embedded and telephony platforms.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut1.shtml

Tutorial 2: Pattern Evolution Algorithms for Search, Optimization and Data
Mining
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
-

The tutorial would cover the Monte Carlo algorithms, genetic algorithms and ant
miner with support vector machine in detail. Emphasis will be given on learning
and using them for search, optimization and data mining purposes. A number of
examples and illustrations will be made including Bioinformatics applications
like protein structure prediction, classification of protein structures,
Chemoinformatics applications like Quantitative Structure Activity
Relationships, Medical diagnosis, and abnormality & fault detection in chemical
processes.

About the speakers:

Dr. Sunderarajan is the group coordinator of Scientific and Engg. Computing
Group at CDAC, Pune, India. He has a Ph. D. in Physics from Anna University. He
has been working in the field of protein structure prediction using GA and
electronic structure calculations for past several years and has published about
45 paper in international journals.

Dr. Jayaraman is a senior Scientist at the Chemical Engineering and Process
Development division of the National Chemical Laboratory. His research interests
include mathematical modeling of chemically reacting systems; Process
Optimization, Control & Monitoring; Modeling and Design of Chemical &
Bioreactors; and application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to
Bioinformatics and chemically reacting systems.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut2.shtml

Tutorial 3: EVOLVABLE HARDWARE - Implication on Engineering Design and
Intelligence of Autonomous Systems
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
-------

The tutorial will discuss Framework for Evolutionary Computation (EC) and its
application as Evolvable Hardware (EHW). It will cover EHW definition, general
considerations and EHW classification, technology support of EHW and advanced
type of FPGA, hardware architectures with intrinsic EC like embryological
architectures, emergent functionality architectures, evolvable fault tolerant
systems, Parallel evolvable architectures of Higuchi type, and evolvable
architectures on functional level. The tutorial will also cover application of
GA for design of EHW design elements with local improvement of chromosomes
applied for optimization of evolved configuration in RLD (Reconfiguration Logic
Devices) block of EHW architectures.

About the speaker:

Prof. Negoita received his Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of
Bucharest (TUB), Romania in 1985. He is currently a Professor in The School of
Information Technology, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), New Zealand
and the Director of Centre for Computational Intelligence at WelTec. His
research interests and specializations includes Intelligent Hybrid Systems,
Evolvable Hardware, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Genetic algorithms. He is a
member of KES Executive Committee, an Associate editor of KES International
Journal, and an Associate editor of International Journal of Intelligent
Automation and Soft Computing.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut3.shtml

regs,
Kavitha
==============================================================
KBCS-2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs/kbcs2004/
---------------------------------------------------------------
Kavitha M, KBCS division, C-DAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST)
E-mail: kavitham@...; Ph. No: +91-22-2620 16 06 x:372
===============================================================





Artificial Consciousness Development List Recommended Reading:
==============================================================
Alan Turing: The Enigma (May 2000 Edition)
Andrew Hodges
Amazon $14.36
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802775802/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
The Symbolic Species : The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
Terrence W. Deacon
Amazon $12.76
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393317544/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
Understanding Language Understanding : Computational Models of Reading
Ashwin Ram and Kenneth Moorman (eds.)
Amazon $50.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262181924/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
Christopher Manning, Hinrich Schutze
Amazon $60.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262133601/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
Rethinking Innateness : A Connectionist Perspective on Development
Jeffrey L. Elman et al
Amazon $20.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/026255030X/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================
Exercises in Rethinking Innateness : A Handbook for Connectionist Simulations
Jeffrey L. Elman et al
Amazon $45.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262661055/mindpixecorporat
==============================================================

I strongly recommend the above books to everyone on this list.
(Note: The Amazon commission goes directly to fund the
MindPixel/ai@home Project) Chris McKinstry, Arcondev Moderator
http://www.mindpixel.com/chris


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     INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
             Hyderabad, India.  December 19-22, 2004
                 http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

                       Call for Participation

The International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems will be held in
Hyderabad, India during December 19-22, 2004. The conference is intended to act
as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of
Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad.

There will be a three-day conference during December 20-22, 2004, preceded by a
day of pre-conference tutorials on December 19, 2004. The conference programme
consists of presentations of selected papers, invited talks, panel discussion
and sponsor presentation.

Over 200 papers were submitted to the conference from India and abroad. After a
rigorous international refereeing process, about 50 papers have been selected,
which will be presented during the conference. The papers span areas such as
Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Intelligent Agents, Machine Learning, OCR,
Reasoning, Planning and Scheduling, Search Techniques, etc.

Invited Talks by:
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* Prof. Tony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK.
* Prof. Martin Kay, Trinity College, UK.
* Prof. Ramon Mántaras, Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
* Prof. Abdul Sattar, Griffith University, Australia.
* Prof. Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Pre-Conference Tutorials:
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==> Speech Recognition and Synthesis (Full Day)
       * Prof. Samudravijaya K., TIFR, Mumbai, India.
       * Mr. S. P. Kishore, IIIT Hyderabad, India and LTI CMU, USA.
       * Dr. R N V Sitaram HP Labs, Bangalore, India.

==> Pattern Evolution Algorithms for Search, Optimization and Data Mining
     (Full Day)
       * Dr. V. Sunderarajan, CDAC Pune, India.
       * Dr. V. K. Jayaraman, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.

==> 'Evolvable Hardware' - Implication on Engineering Design and
      Intelligence of Autonomous Systems (Half Day)
        * Prof. Mircea Gh. Negoita, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec),
          New Zealand.

Registration Fees:
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Conference:
   * Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 2800/- (100$)
   * Other Institutions : Rs. 4000/- (140$)
   * Students : Rs 1500/- (50$)

Tutorial: (full-day)
   * Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 2200/- (70$)
   * Other Institutions  : Rs. 3500/- (120$)
   * Students : Rs 800/- (40$)

Tutorial: (half-day)
   * Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 1500/- (50$)
   * Other Institutions  : Rs. 2500/- (80$)
   * Students : Rs 500/- (25$)

For registration details, please visit the
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/registration.shtml

Conference Venue:
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ITC Hotel Kakatiya Sheraton & Towers,
6-3-1187, Begumpet, Hyderabad - 500 016, A.P., India.

Tutorial Venue:
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IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019, A.P., India.

Advisory Committee:
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Aravind K. Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
P.V.S. Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd., Mumbai
R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore

Programme Committee:
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K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, HP Labs, Bangalore
Vivek Balaraman, TRDDC, Pune
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Mumbai
PP Chakraborti, IIT Kharagpur
S. Kambhampati, Arizona State University
M. Narasimha Murty, IISc, Bangalore
Bernd Neumann, University of Hamburg
Arun K Pujari, University of Hyderabad
S. Ramani, HP Labs, Bangalore
P.V.S. Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd., Mumbai (Chair)
Durgesh D. Rao, DR Systems, Mumbai
P. Saint-Dizier, University of Paul Sabatier, France
K. Samudravijaya, TIFR, Mumbai
R. Sangal, IIIT, Hyderabad
M. Sasikumar, C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST) (co-chair)
S. Sen Gupta, Tata Infotech Ltd., Mumbai
R. Uthurusamy, GMR Labs, USA (co-chair)

Request for Information:
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For further information please refer to the KBCS-2004 home page or write to

KBCS-2004 Secretariat,
C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth,
Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,
Sector 7, CBD Belapur,
Navi Mumbai - 400 614, INDIA.
E-mail: kbcs@...
Phone: +91-22-27560013
Fax: +91-22-27560004
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

regs,
  Kavitha
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KBCS-2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs/kbcs2004/
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Kavitha M, KBCS division, C-DAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST)
E-mail: kavitham@...; Ph. No: +91-22-2620 16 06 x:372
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                            K B C S 2004
      INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
                           Hyderabad, India.

                    Call for Tutorial Participation
         [http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/pretutorials.shtml]

As a part of KBCS-2004, an international conference on Knowledge Based Computer
Systems, two full day and one half day pre-conference tutorials are being held
on December 19, 2004.

The tutorials for the conference are:
1. Speech Recognition and Synthesis [Duration: Full Day]

Speakers:
   - Prof. Samudravijaya K., TIFR, Mumbai, India.
   - Mr. S. P. Kishore, IIIT Hyderabad, India and LTI CMU, USA.
   - Dr. R. N. V. Sitaram HP Labs, Bangalore, India.

2. Pattern Evolution Algorithms for Search, Optimization and Data Mining
[Duration: Full Day]

Speakers:
   - Dr. V. Sunderarajan, CDAC Pune, India.
   - Dr. V. K. Jayaraman, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.

3. EVOLVABLE HARDWARE - Implication on Engineering Design and Intelligence of
Autonomous Systems [Duration: Half Day]

Speaker:
   - Prof. Mircea Gh. Negoita, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), New
Zealand.

Note: A brief description of each tutorial is available below after the contact
information.

Tutorial Venue:
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IIIT, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 019, A.P., India.

Registration Fee details:
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Half-day tutorial:
   * Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 1500/- (50$)
   * Other institutions : Rs. 2500/- (80$)
   * Students : Rs 500/- (25$)

Full-day tutorial:
   * Non-profit R&D and Educational Institutions : Rs. 2200/- (70$)
   * Others institutions : Rs. 3500/- (120$)
   * Students : Rs 800/- (40$)

For registration details, please visit the
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/registration.shtml

Contact Information:
-------------------
KBCS-2004 Secretariat,
C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth,
Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,
Sector 7, CBD Belapur,
Navi Mumbai - 400 614, INDIA.
E-mail: kbcs@...
Phone: +91-22-27560013
Fax: +91-22-27560004
URL: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

Tutorial 1: Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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The tutorial will introduce two important aspects of human machine interaction
through voice: Automatic speech recognition and Text-to-speech systems. The
technical tutorial, spanning in two parts, will cover fundamentals as well as
techniques for building both speech recognition systems and synthesis systems.

This will enable participants to gain sound knowledge of speech signal
processing as well as design of speech recognition and speech synthesis systems.
It will also put them into position of building their own recognition and
synthesis systems.

About the Speakers:

Prof. Samudravijaya K. has been working in the area of spoken language
processing at TIFR, Mumbai. His research interests include robust speech
recognition, speaker verification, speech database and cursive script
recognition. He received his Ph.D. degree from Mumbai University in 1986.

Mr. S. P. Kishore has been working in the area of speech processing at IIIT
Hyderabad and also at LTI, Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests
include speech processing and machine learning. He received MS (by Research)
degree from IIT Madras in 2001 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at LTI,
Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Sitaram is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs India working in Language
Technologies and Applications. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Communication
Engineering, specialized in "Speech recognition", from IISc, Bangalore. His
interests include speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken dialog systems
and real time implementation of these in embedded and telephony platforms.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut1.shtml

Tutorial 2: Pattern Evolution Algorithms for Search, Optimization and Data
Mining
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The tutorial would cover the Monte Carlo algorithms, genetic algorithms and ant
miner with support vector machine in detail. Emphasis will be given on learning
and using them for search, optimization and data mining purposes. A number of
examples and illustrations will be made including Bioinformatics applications
like protein structure prediction, classification of protein structures,
Chemoinformatics applications like Quantitative Structure Activity
Relationships, Medical diagnosis, and abnormality & fault detection in chemical
processes.

About the speakers:

Dr. Sunderarajan is the group coordinator of Scientific and Engg. Computing
Group at CDAC, Pune, India. He has a Ph. D. in Physics from Anna University. He
has been working in the field of protein structure prediction using GA and
electronic structure calculations for past several years and has published about
45 paper in international journals.

Dr. Jayaraman is a senior Scientist at the Chemical Engineering and Process
Development division of the National Chemical Laboratory. His research interests
include mathematical modeling of chemically reacting systems; Process
Optimization, Control & Monitoring; Modeling and Design of Chemical &
Bioreactors; and application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to
Bioinformatics and chemically reacting systems.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut2.shtml

Tutorial 3: EVOLVABLE HARDWARE - Implication on Engineering Design and
Intelligence of Autonomous Systems
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The tutorial will discuss Framework for Evolutionary Computation (EC) and its
application as Evolvable Hardware (EHW). It will cover EHW definition, general
considerations and EHW classification, technology support of EHW and advanced
type of FPGA, hardware architectures with intrinsic EC like embryological
architectures, emergent functionality architectures, evolvable fault tolerant
systems, Parallel evolvable architectures of Higuchi type, and evolvable
architectures on functional level. The tutorial will also cover application of
GA for design of EHW design elements with local improvement of chromosomes
applied for optimization of evolved configuration in RLD (Reconfiguration Logic
Devices) block of EHW architectures.

About the speaker:

Prof. Negoita received his Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of
Bucharest (TUB), Romania in 1985. He is currently a Professor in The School of
Information Technology, Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec), New Zealand
and the Director of Centre for Computational Intelligence at WelTec. His
research interests and specializations includes Intelligent Hybrid Systems,
Evolvable Hardware, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Genetic algorithms. He is a
member of KES Executive Committee, an Associate editor of KES International
Journal, and an Associate editor of International Journal of Intelligent
Automation and Soft Computing.

More Details: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/tut3.shtml

regs,
  Kavitha
==============================================================
KBCS-2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs/kbcs2004/
---------------------------------------------------------------
Kavitha M, KBCS division, C-DAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST)
E-mail: kavitham@...; Ph. No: +91-22-2620 16 06 x:372
===============================================================

Hello, I've just been made the coordinator of the Washington DC area AI
meetup group.

This is my attempt to promote this group. I don't mean to be annoying
with this message, I appologise if you receive it more than a few dozen
times. ;)

While I would be most interested in AI researchers who are able to
travel ot Northern Virginia, the meetup system supports groups
worldwide so join up anyway.

The site is   http://ai.meetup.com/

Feel free to pass this invite along.

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SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW
SCI-CON.ORG NEWSLETTER
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August 4, 2004

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
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1.  SCR Feature - The Scientific Consciousness Community Mourns the
Loss of Francis Crick
2.  How the brain can be fooled into feeling a fake limb
3.  Neuroscience: Change of mind
4.  Why do we sleep?
5.  VR Tool Re-Creates Hallucinations
6.  Self-recognition in everyday life
7.  New Issue of NeuroImage
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1. The Scientific Consciousness Community Mourns the Loss of Francis Crick
   Original to SCR
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**The scientific consciousness community mourns the loss of Francis
Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, who devoted the last several decades
of his life to the quest for understanding consciousness and its brain
basis. Crick successfully encouraged new experimental research, and in
collaboration with Christof Koch, developed testable hypotheses about
the brain basis of conscious experience. He helped rescue the topic
from an undeserved negative reputation and did much to return it to
the forefront of scientific interest. His quick and penetrating mind,
kindness to others and leadership in the field  will be sorely missed.**

Read More: http://www.sci-con.org/news/articles/20040703.html
<http://www.sci-con.org/articles/20040601.html>
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2. How the brain can be fooled into feeling a fake limb
   EurekAlert
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Stories of amputees feeling phantom limbs is common place, however
Henrik Ehrsson of University College London identify fake limbs as
part of their own body. The study argues that distinguishing the self
from non-self is done by comparing information from multiple senses
and that this distinction is merely an illusion created by the brain.

Read More:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-07/ucl-tnm062904.php
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3.  Neuroscience: Change of mind
    Nature.com
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Report of a case of a Liverpool patient who after a cerebral hemorage
turned from violent convict to a compulsive and creative artist.

Read More:
http://www.nature.com/cgitaf/Dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v430/n6995/f=
ull/430014a_fs.html

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4.  Why do we sleep?
    Nature.com
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The July issue of Nature has a special focus on sleep and cites two
articles as shedding light on the issue.

Local sleep and learning
Human sleep is a global state whose functions remain unclear. During
much of sleep, cortical neurons undergo slow oscillations in membrane
potential, which appear in electroencephalograms as slow wave activity
(SWA) of <4 Hz. The amount of SWA is homeostatically regulated,
increasing after wakefulness and returning to baseline during sleep.
It has been suggested that SWA homeostasis may reflect synaptic
changes underlying a cellular need for sleep. If this were so,
inducing local synaptic changes should induce local SWA changes, and
these should benefit neural function. Here we show that sleep
homeostasis indeed has a local component, which can be triggered by a
learning task involving specific brain regions. Furthermore, we show
that the local increase in SWA after learning correlates with improved
performance of the task after sleep. Thus, sleep homeostasis can be
induced on a local level and can benefit performance.

http://phy.ucsf.edu/~idl/pdf_articles/Tonini_Nature_2004.pdf


Neurobiology: Sleep on it
Is the function of sleep to replenish energy resources or to modify
neural connections in the brain? Recordings of the brain's
'reverberating circuits' evident during sleep shed light on the question.

http://phy.ucsf.edu/~idl/pdf_articles/Tononi_Nature_NV_2004_files/DynaPage_=
002.htm


Read More:
http://www.nature.com/nature/links/040701/040701-1.html

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5.  VR Tool Re-Creates Hallucinations
    Technology Research News
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Based on patient interviews, researchers from University of Queensland
in Australia have created a virtual reality environment to allow
psychiatrists to understand what it is like to have hallucinations.
Descriptions of the hallucinations are gained from the patients, and
then recreated in software.

Read More:
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/061604/VR_tool_re-creates_hallucinations=
_061604.html

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6.  Self-recognition in everyday life
    Serge Brédart & Andrew Young
    University of Liège Belgium, University of York UK
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Introduction: A sample of everyday difficulties was collected,
encompassing errors and unusual experiences participants had
encountered when recognising their own faces in everyday life, with
the aim of characterising similarities and differences between the
reported difficulties and the major forms of self-recognition
impairments described in the neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric
literatures (prosopagnosia, mirrored-self misidentification, and
Capgras delusion).

Method. A total of 70 participants recalled experiences from memory.
Incidents (n = 51) were recorded on questionnaire sheets that were
filled out at home. Reports of three categories of incidents were
analysed: misidentifications (the participant misidentified her/his
own face as being that of another familiar person; n = 5), recognition
failures (the participant judged that his/her own face was that of an
unfamiliar person; n = 20) and perception of unusual aspects (the
participant confidently recognised his/her own face but found that the
seen face did not fit well the representation she/he had of his/her
own face; n = 26).

Results and discussion. In the reported incidents, experiences showing
some similarities to those of patients with prosopagnosia, Capgras
delusion or mirrored self misidentification were noted. However,
across the whole study, no incident involved a failure of reality
testing; in contrast to pathological forms of error, in all of the
reported incidents from our study the participant realised that a
mistake had been made. The importance of decision processes in
pathological forms of own-face misrecognition is discussed.

Read More:
http://tinyurl.com/6zzgm  [Ingenta.com]

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7.  New Issue of NeuroImage, April 2004
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Contents of this Issue:

The neural substrates of conscious color perception demonstrated using
fMRI
Tomoyo Morita, Takanori Kochiyama, Tomohisa Okada, Yoshiharu Yonekura,
Michikazu Matsumura and Norihiro Sadato

Human MT+ mediates perceptual filling-in during apparent motion
Taosheng Liu, Scott D. Slotnick and Steven Yantis

Brain areas and time course of emotional processing
M. Esslen, R. D. Pascual-Marqui, D. Hell, K. Kochi and D. Lehmann

Activation of the amygdala and anterior cingulate during
nonconscious\processing of sad versus happy faces
William D. S. Killgore and Deborah A. Yurgelun-Todd

Functional-anatomic correlates of remembering and knowing
Mark E. Wheeler and Randy L. Buckner

Willed action and attention to the selection of action
H. C. Lau, R. D. Rogers, N. Ramnani and R. E. Passingham

Differential neural responses to overt and covert presentations of
facial expressions of fear and disgust
Mary L. Phillips, Leanne M. Williams, Maike Heining, Catherine M. Herba,
Tamara Russell, Christopher Andrew, Ed T. Bullmore, Michael J. Brammer

Read More:
http://tinyurl.com/5sho6  [ScienceDirect]

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SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW
SCI-CON.ORG NEWSLETTER
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May 13, 2004

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
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1. SCR Feature - A specific drug for consciousness, Bernard J. Baars
2. News - Animal minds
3. News - Autonomic responding to aversive words without conscious
valence discrimination
4. News - Increasing Implicit Self-Esteem Through Classical Conditioning
5. News - Why it hurts less to be a man
6. New issue - Self and subjectivity
7. New books from MIT Press
8. New book - Philosophy of the brain
9. New book - Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain
10. Book reviews from Metapsychology
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1. SCR Feature - A specific drug for consciousness
    Bernard J. Baars
    Original to SCR
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Millions of people rely on strong coffee every morning to really wake
up. All-night truck drivers sometimes take amphetamines to stay
conscious on the road, and for centuries South American peoples have
chewed coca leaves to stay alert and increase physical endurance. Yet
none of these compounds are specific "consciousness" drugs. They
stimulate waking along with many side effects. A novel pharmaceutical,
modafinil (provigil), may be the most specific consciousness-promoting
drug yet.

Read more: http://www.sci-con.org/articles/20040701.html
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2. Animal Minds
    New Scientist Print Edition
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Do animals have minds of their own, and if they do, what might they be
like? It is an innocent-sounding question, but one that has provoked
tremendous strife among scientists and non-scientists alike. Try
telling a dog-lover that their pet is devoid of personality. Yet there
are those who insist that only humans have minds worthy of the name,
because it is only humans who have complex language. Others apply the
definition to humans and some other primates. Others still ascribe a
mind of some description to all animals, and claim we just need more
research to determine what sort of minds they have. Now we are on the
verge of a revolution that may settle the question.

Read More:
http://archive.newscientist.com/secure/article/article.jsp?rp=2&id=mg182245=
15.100
[requires subscription, free 7-day trial available]
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3. Autonomic responding to aversive words without conscious valence
      discrimination
    Laetitia Silverta, Sylvain Delplanquea, Hammou Bouwalerh
    Université de Lille, France
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A growing body of data suggests that the emotional dimension of a
stimulus can be processed without conscious identification of the
stimulus. The arousal system could be activated by unrecognised
biologically significant stimuli through simple physical stimulus
features related to threat, without any evaluation of the meaning of
the stimulus. However, unconscious processing of emotionally laden
words cannot rely only on perceptual features but must include some
analysis of symbolic meaning. The first aim of the present study was
to assess whether masked (unrecognised) aversive words can elicit
enhanced skin conductance responses (SCRs), a major autonomic index of
emotional arousal, in normal participants. Our second aim was to
determine whether any autonomic activation related to affective value
of words is independent from access of this value to consciousness.
Thus, the presentation duration of masked aversive and neutral words
was determined, for each participant, in such a way that (1)
identification was precluded, (2) valence discrimination was at
chance, as indicated by performance in a forced-choice two-alternative
task and by confidence ratings of the responses, and (3) emotional and
neutral words were not detected differentially. SCRs were recorded
during masked and unmasked presentations of both types of word. SCRs
elicited by unmasked words, and also by masked words, were of greater
magnitude when the words were emotional than when they were neutral.
Consequently, in normal participants, autonomic activation can be a
discriminative marker of the affective dimension of unrecognised
verbal material in the absence of conscious valence identification.

Read More:
http://tinyurl.com/2snn3 [ScienceDirect]
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4. Increasing Implicit Self-Esteem Through Classical Conditioning
    Jodene R. Baccus, Mark W. Baldwin, and Dominic J. Packer
    McGill University, Canada
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Implicit self-esteem is the automatic, nonconscious aspect of
self-esteem. This study demonstrated that implicit self-esteem can be
increased using a computer game that repeatedly pairs self-relevant
information with smiling faces. These findings, which are consistent
with principles of classical conditioning, establish the associative
and interpersonal nature of implicit self-esteem and demonstrate the
potential benefit of applying basic learning principles in this domain.

Read More:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/journal_issues/psinpress/Baccus=
.pdf
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5. Why it hurts less to be a man
    Nature Science Update
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It will come as no surprise to some... men are less sensitive than
women, at least to pain. Researchers have found that the male hormone
testosterone masks feelings of discomfort. They believe that such
tolerance effects may help men to maintain their stamina in fights,
when testosterone levels are high.

Read More:
http://tinyurl.com/2w3rn  [Nature.com]
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6. Self and subjectivity
    Volume 3 Number 3/July-September 2004 of Self and Identity is now
      available on the Taylor & Francis - Psychology Press web site at
      http://psychologypress.metapress.com.
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This issue contains:

Self-Construal and Cooperation: Is the Interdependent Self More
Cooperative Than the Independent Self?
p. 177
Sonja Utz

URL of article:
http://psychologypress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=AQHBA1054U3NG7N0

Helping New Acquaintances Make the Right Impression: Balancing Image
Concerns of Others and Self
p. 191
Barry R Schlenker, Audra Lifka, Scott A Wowra

URL of article:
http://psychologypress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=H4XEW7Y5Y05AJP5L

Feeling Controlled and Drinking Motives Among College Students:
Contingent Self-Esteem as a Mediator
p. 207
Clayton Neighbors, Mary E Larimer, Irene Markman Geisner, C Raymond Knee

URL of article:
http://psychologypress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=66Q6RWPC1FE7Y8XH

Empathy and the Self-Absorption Paradox II: Self-Rumination and
Self-Reflection as Mediators Between Shame, Guilt, and Empathy
p. 225
Jeff Joireman

URL of article:
http://psychologypress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=70YT9056C5DBJYVX

A Three-Factor Model of Social Identity
p. 239
James E Cameron

URL of article:
http://psychologypress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=VK29UV7RU2WJD4FB

Stress-Buffering Effects of Self-Complexity: Reduced Affective
Spillover or Self-Regulatory Processes?
p. 263
Klaus Rothermund, Christian Meiniger

URL of article:
http://psychologypress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=N7T65YKT2WCWCCQC
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7. New Books from MIT Press
    What Is Thought?
    By Eric B. Baum
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Toward a computational explanation of thought: an argument that
underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to
the underlying complex structure of the world.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9978&mlid=291

Visual Agnosia Second Edition
By Martha J. Farah

The second edition of the classic book on visual agnosia, updated to
include disorders of semantic knowledge and topographic recognition,
and integrating perspectives from functional neuroimaging throughout.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=10116&mlid=291
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8. Philosophy of the Brain
    The brain problem
    Georg Northoff
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John Benjamins Publishing Company is pleased to announce the
publication of
the following book in the field of Consciousness Studies:


Philosophy of the Brain
The brain problem

Georg Northoff
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Advances in Consciousness Research 52
2004. x, 433 pp.

U.S. and Canada: Cloth: 1 58811 416 3 / USD 119.00
Everywhere else: Cloth: 90 272 5183 5 / EUR 99.00

U.S. and Canada: Paper: 1 58811 417 1 / USD 81.95
Everywhere else: Paper: 90 272 5184 3 / EUR 68.00

"What is the mind?"
"What is the relationship between brain and mind?"
These are common questions. But "What is the brain?" is a rare
question in both the neurosciences and philosophy. The reason for this
may lie in the brain itself: Is there a "brain problem"? In this fresh
and innovative book, Georg Northoff demonstrates that there is in fact
a "brain problem". He argues that our brain can only be understood
when its empirical functions are directly related to the modes of
acquiring knowledge, our epistemic abilities and inabilities. Drawing
on the latest neuroscientific data and philosophical theories, he
provides an empirical-epistemic definition of the brain. Northoff
reveals the basic conceptual confusion about the relationship between
mind and brain that has so obstinately been lingering in both
neuroscience and philosophy. He subsequently develops an alternative
framework where the integration of the brain within body and
environment is central. This novel approach plunges the reader into
the depths of our own brain. The "Philosophy of the Brain" that
emerges opens the door to a fascinating world of new findings that
explore the mind and its relationship to our very human brain.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  ix
1. The 'Brain problem': 'Mind problems', hypothesis of 'embedment' and
the neurophilosophical method  1-57
2. Neuroepistemological account of the brain: 'Epistemic-empirical
relationship'  59-174
3. 'Philosophy of the brain': Empirical hypothesis of the brain,
'epistemology of the brain' and 'ontology of the brain'  175-335
4. The 'Embedded brain': 'Mind problems', hypothesis of 'Embedment',
and 'Paradigm shifts'  337-364
References  365-401
Author index  403-404
Subject index  405-429
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9. Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain
    Edited by Mario Beauregard
************************

John Benjamins Publishing Company is pleased to announce the following
new
books in the field of Consciousness Studies:
Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain

Edited by Mario Beauregard
Universit de Montreal
Advances in Consciousness Research 54
2004. xii, 294 pp.
U.S. and Canada: Cloth: 1 58811 458 9 / USD 119.00
Everywhere else: Cloth: 90 272 5187 8 / EUR 99.00
U.S. and Canada: Paper: 1 58811 459 7 / USD 77.95
Everywhere else: Paper: 90 272 5188 6 / EUR 65.00

During the last decade, the study of emotional self-regulation has
blossomed in a variety of sub-disciplines belonging to either
psychology (developmental, clinical) or the neurosciences (cognitive
and affective). Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain
gives an overview of the current state of this relatively new
scientific field. Several areas are examined by some of the leading
theorists and researchers in this emerging domain. Most chapters seek
to either present theoretical and developmental perspectives about
emotional self-regulation (and dysregulation), provide cutting edge
information with regard to the neural basis of conscious emotional
experience and emotional self-regulation, or expound theoretical
models susceptible of explaining how healthy individuals are capable
of consciously and voluntarily changing the neural activity underlying
emotional processes and states. In addition, a few chapters consider
the capacity of human consciousness to volitionally influence the
brain=92s electrical activity or modulate the impact of emotions on
the psychoneuroendocrine-immune network. This book will undoubtedly be
useful to scholars and graduate students interested in the
relationships between self-consciousness, emotion, the brain, and the
body.

Table of contents

List of Contributors  vii

Introduction  ix

1. Emotion self-regulation
Maren Westphal and George A. Bonanno 1

2. Temperament and emotional regulation: Multiple models of early
development Susan D. Calkins 35

3. Emotion dysregulation and psychopathology
Kimberly Shipman, Renee Schneider and Amy Brown 61

4. Neural substrates of conscious emotional experience: A cognitive-
neuroscientific perspective Richard D. Lane and Kateri McRae 87

5. Self-regulation by the medial frontal cortex: Limbic representation
of motive set-points Phan Luu and Don M. Tucker 123

6. Neural basis of conscious and voluntary self-regulation of emotion
Mario Beauregard, Johanne L=E9vesque and Vincent Paquette 163

7. The volitional influence of the mind on the brain, with special
reference to emotional self-regulation Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Henry P.
Stapp and Mario Beauregard 195

8. EEG biofeedback ("Neurofeedback") and affective disorders J. Peter
Rosenfeld and Elsa Baehr 239

9. Consciousness, emotional self-regulation, and the psychosomatic
network: Relevance to oral biology and medicine
Francesco Chiappelli, Paolo Prolo, Elaina Cajulis, Scott Harper,
Elaine Sunga and Edna Concepcion 253

Name index  275
Subject index  279
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10. Book reviews from Metapsychology
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We have published the following reviews on Metapsychology
Online of possible interest:

Daniel Dennett
Reconciling Science and Our Self-Conception
by Matthew Elton
Review by Martin Allen on Jun 10th 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2195

John Searle
by Barry Smith (Editor)
Review by Constantine Sandis on Jun 10th 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2194

Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness
by Bernard J. Baars, William P. Banks, James B. Newman
(Editors)
Review by G.C. Gupta, Ph.D. on Jun 3rd 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2169

Soul Made Flesh
The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World
by Carl Zimmer
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D. on May 28th 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2168

Opening Skinner's Box
Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
by Lauren Slater
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D. on May 28th 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2167

Cracked
Recovering after Traumatic Brain Injury
by Lynsey Calderwood
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D. on May 28th 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2165

Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism
by Sandra D. Mitchell
Review by Arantza Etxeberria on May 21st 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2157

Trusting the Subject?
Volume 1
by Anthony Jack and Andreas Roepstorff (Editors)
Review by Liam Dempsey, Ph.D. on May 21st 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2153

All new reviews at
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=li&cat=new_reviews

Philosophy reviews at
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=li&cat=philosophy

Ethics reviews at
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=li&cat=ethics

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 31, 2004

KBCS-2004
THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
December 19-22, 2004, Hyderabad

http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

The next international conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems
will be held in Hyderabad, in December, 2004. The conference is intended
to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the
field of Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad.  The International
Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON) will be held concurrently
at the same venue.

____________________________________________________________
Submission Deadlines

Paper Submission: July 31, 2004
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2004
____________________________________________________________

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on
all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to the
following:

Case Based Reasoning
Cognitive Modelling
Data Mining
Expert Systems
Foundations of AI
Fuzzy Logic
Genetic Algorithms
Intelligent Agents
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Representation
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Neural Networks
Natural Language Processing
Planning and Scheduling
Reasoning
Robotics
Search Techniques
Soft Computing
Speech Processing
Theorem Proving
Uncertainty Handling
Vision

Full papers (abstracts alone will not be accepted) must be submitted
electronically at the conference website (preferred) or by e-mail. All
submissions will be individually acknowledged by e-mail.  Papers must
contain an abstract not exceeding 250 words. Papers must be no more
than 10 pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references
and appendices. Papers must be submitted in PDF/single-file HTML
format. Refereeing will be 'blind' and hence authors' names and
affiliations must be given on a separate cover sheet only.

Instructions regarding the format of submissions will are available at
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/kbcs2004.tar.gz Papers in the Natural
Language Processing area, without strong AI content may be transferred
to ICON-2004 depending on the decision of Programme Committee.

Advisory Committee
------------------
Aravind K. Joshi, Univ. of Pennsylvania
P.V.S Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai
R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore

Programme Committee
------------------
K.S.R Anjaneyulu, HP Labs, Bangalore
Vivek Balaraman, TRDDC, Pune
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Mumbai
P.P. Chakraborti, IIT Kharagpur
S. Kambhampati, Arizona State University
M. Narasimha Murty, IISc, Bangalore
Bernd Neumann, Univ. of Hamburg
Arun K. Pujari, Univ. of Hyderabad
S. Ramani, HP Labs, Bangalore
P.V.S Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai (Chair)
Durgesh D. Rao, DR Systems, Mumbai
P. Saint-Dizier, Univ. of Paul Sabatier, France
K. Samudravijaya, TIFR, Mumbai
R. Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad
M. Sasikumar, C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST) (co-chair)
S. Sengupta, Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai
R. Uthurusamy, GMR Labs, USA (co-chair)


Contact Address
---------------
KBCS-2004 Secretariat,
C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth,
Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,
Sector 7, CBD Belapur,
Navi Mumbai 400614, India

Phone: +91-22-27560013 kbcs@...
Fax: +91-22-27560004 www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

regs,
  Kavitha
==============================================================
KBCS-2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs/kbcs2004/
---------------------------------------------------------------
Kavitha M, KBCS division, C-DAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST)
E-mail: kavitham@...; Ph. No: +91-22-2620 16 06 x:372
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SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW
SCI-CON.ORG NEWSLETTER
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June 13, 2004

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
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1.  SCR Feature - How do you persist when your molecules don't?, McCrone
2.  Postnote on the WRCM Workshop in Memphis
3.  News - Link proved between senses and memory 4.  Splitting the
spotlight of visual attention
5.  Article - Natural-Born Dualists
6.  Capturing Attention When Attention "Blinks"
7.  Multiple Spotlights of Attentional Selection in Human Visual Cortex
8.  News - Most of us are poor judges of our own abilities
9.  News - Quoth the raven
10. Book Review - "Do Animals Think?"
11. New Journal - Consciousness and Cognition
12. New Journal - Journal of Consciousness Studies
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1. How do you persist when your molecules don't?
   John McCrone
   Original to SCR
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It is an extraordinary fact that we maintain functional constancy of
all kinds, in perception, personal identity, etc. -- in the face of
rapid turnover of some of the most important neuronal regions.  John
McCrone examines this in our latest article.

Read More: http://www.sci-con.org/articles/20040601.html
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2. Postnote on the WRCM Workshop in Memphis
   SCR Staff
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Thanks to all who attended the Workshop on the Role of Consciousness
in Memory.  We all had a great time and we hope to have all of the
presentations online in the next couple of weeks.

http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~wrcm/kspeakers.html [Abstracts]
http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~wrcm/program.html [Presentations]
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3. Link proved between senses and memory   Nature.com
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Brtish researchers report show that memories are scattered across the
brain's sensory centres and that if one of the senses is stimulated to
evoke a memory, other sensory memories are also triggered.

"That's the beauty of our memory system," he says. "Imagine a nice day
on the beach. The smell of sun lotion, the friends you were with, the
beer you were drinking; any of these could trigger memories of the
whole thing."

Read More: http://www.nature.com/nsu/040524/040524-12.html
           http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature01960
[original article from Neuron]
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4. Splitting the spotlight of visual attention
   Frank Tong
   Princeton University
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Can the brain attend to more than a single location at one time? In
this issue of Neuron, McMains and Somers report psychophysical and
fMRI evidence showing that subjects can attend to two separate
locations concurrently and that divided spatial attention leads to
separate zones of attentional enhancement in early visual cortex.

Read More: http://tinyurl.com/2rqaa     [ScienceDirect]
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5. Natural Born Dualists
   Paul Bloom
   Edge.org
************************* Paul Bloom of Yale University and Edge.org
explores the development of mind-body dualism in children.  He argues
that even babies start off with this intuitive mind-body split.  Like
almost everything on edge.org, it is extremely readable and accessable
to non-scientific audiences.

Read More: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bloom04/bloom04_index.html
   [text]
           http://www.edge.org/video/dsl/bloom.html [Quicktime movie of
the same]
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6. Capturing Attention When Attention "Blinks"
   Serena Wee, Fook K. Chua
   National University of Singapore
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Four experiments addressed the question of whether attention may be
captured when the visual system is in the midst of an attentional
blink (AB). Participants identified 2 target letters embedded among
distractor letters in a rapid serial visual presentation sequence. In
some trials, a square frame was inserted between the targets; as the
only geometric object in the sequence, it constituted a singleton.
Capture effects obtained when the AB was most severe and when it was
over were compared. There were 3 main results. First, capture occurred
even when the AB was crippling, suggesting that a singleton
exogenously engaged attention even when processing of a previous
target was continuing apace. Second, when the singleton contained the
key target feature, capture effects were clearly manifest. Third, even
when the singleton did not possess the key target feature, it still
succeeded in capturing attention, although the effects were both
feeble and fleeting.

Read More: http://tinyurl.com/2c9pr [ScienceDirect]
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7. Multiple Spotlights of Attentional Selection in Human Visual Cortex
   Stephanie A. McMains1, David C. Somers
   Boston University
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Spatially directed attention strongly enhances visual perceptual
processing. The metaphor of the "spotlight" has long been used to
describe spatial attention; however, there has been considerable
debate as to whether spatial attention must be unitary or may be split
between discrete regions of space. This question was addressed here
through functional MR imaging of human subjects as they performed a
task that required simultaneous attention to two briefly displayed and
masked targets at locations separated by distractor stimuli. These
data reveal retinotopically specific enhanced activation in striate
and extrastriate visual cortical representations of the two attended
stimuli and no enhancement at the intervening representation of
distractor stimuli. This finding of two spotlights was obtained within
a single cortical hemisphere and across the two hemispheres. This
provides direct evidence that spatial attention can select, in
parallel, multiple low-level perceptual representations.

Read More: http://tinyurl.com/3gmfj
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8. Most of us poor judges of our own abilities
   Katherine Burson
   University of Michigan
************************
Most of us believe we can accurately gauge how our personal
performance and abilities stack up against our peers, but new research
suggests that we are in fact poor judges of our own comparative talents.
Researchers from the University of Michigan Business School, Duke
University and the University of Chicago report that people at all
skill levels, including both top achievers and poor performers, show
similar degrees of inaccuracy and bias in making interpersonal
comparisons.
These errors in judgment are tied to perceptions about the difficulty
of an assigned task. When the task seems hard, top achievers
underestimate their standing relative to their peers, resulting in
less accurate predictions. When a task appears to be easy, poor
performers overestimate their relative standing, making their
predictions less accurate.

Read More:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/uom-mou052804.php
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9. Quoth the raven
   Economist.com
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New research in the Proceedings of the Royal Society exploring theory
of mind and agenthood in birds measured by response to a human gaze.
Response and following a gaze is considered to be a base measure of
theory of mind in humans children.  (Failure at this is often a sign
of autism.)  It was found that all birds were able to follow the gaze
of the experimenters.  Furthermore, some birds went to investigate
whatever the experimenters were staring at.

Read More: http://tinyurl.com/3gjnx [Economist.com]
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10. "Do Animals Think?" by Clive Wynne
    Reviewed by Stan Persky
************************
The answer to the title question of Clive Wynne's book, Do Animals
Think?, is: Not very much. I mention this right off the bat not only
to dispel unnecessary suspense but because Wynne, a University of
Florida psychology prof and the author of an earlier textbook on
animal cognition, writes so charmingly about the behaviour of
honeybees, bats, pigeons, and dolphins that one almost forgets that
for considerable stretches of Do Animals Think? he says very little
about thinking at all.

>> SCR: This is worth reading if nothing else for the highly
entertaining remarks regarding Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a
Bat?"


Read More: http://tinyurl.com/2afjt
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11. New issue of Consciousness and Cognition
    Volume 12, Issue 2
************************
* Russell Epstein; Consciousness, art, and the brain: Lessons from
Marcel Proust
* David Galin; Aesthetic experience: Marcel Proust and the
neo-Jamesian structure of awareness
* Donald Dryden; Memory, imagination, and the cognitive value of the arts
* L. Coward and Ron Sun; Criteria for an effective theory of
consciousness and some preliminary attempts
* Jing Zhu; Locating volition
* Justin Feinstein; From sensory processes to conscious perception
* Diane Zizak; Implicit preferences: The role(s) of familiarity in the
structural mere exposure effect
* Daniel Levin; No pause for a brief disruption: Failures of visual
awareness during ongoing events
* Kielan Yarrow; Action, arousal, and subjective time
* Larry Cahill; The influence of sex versus sex-related traits on
long-term memory for gist and detail from an emotional story
* Fredick Travis; Psychological and physiological characteristics of a
proposed object-referral/self-referral continuum of self-awareness *
Matthew Brown; In sight but out of mind: Do competing views test the
limits of perception without awareness?
* Matthew Erdelyi; Comments on commentaries: Kihlstrom, Bachmann,
Reingold, and Snodgrass
* Papers to Appear in Forthcoming Issues
Read More: http://tinyurl.com/ytmqd [ScienceDirect]
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12. New issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies
    Volume 11, No. 3-4
    Special Feature: Art and the Brain Part III
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* Joseph A. Goguen & Erik Myin; Editorial Introduction
* Mari Tervaniemi & Elvira Brattico; From Sounds to Music: Towards
Understanding the Neurocognition of Musical Sound Perception
* Bruce F. Katz; A Measure of Musical Preferance
* Neus Barrantes-Vidal; Creativity and Madness Revisited from Current
Psychological Perspectives
* Ivar Hagendoorn; Some Speculative Hypotheses about the Nature and
Perception of Dance and Choreography
* Erich Harth; Art and Reductionism
* Joseph A. Goguen; Musical Qualia, Context, Time and Emotion
* Amy Ione; Klee and Kandinsky: Polyphonic Painting, Chromatic Chords
and Synaesthesia
* Vijay Iyer; Improvisation, Temporality and Embodied Experience
* Borgo D; The Play of Meaning and the Meaning of Play in Jazz

Read More: http://tinyurl.com/3xgmz [Ingenta.com]
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What's going on?

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

KBCS-2004
THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
December 19-22, 2004, Hyderabad

http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

The next international conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems
will be held in Hyderabad, in December, 2004. The conference is intended
to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the
field of Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad.  The International
Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON) will be held concurrently
at the same venue.

____________________________________________________________
Submission Deadlines

Registration of Paper: July 1, 2004
Paper Submission: July 10, 2004
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2004
____________________________________________________________

Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on
all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to the
following:

Case Based Reasoning
Cognitive Modelling
Data Mining
Expert Systems
Foundations of AI
Fuzzy Logic
Genetic Algorithms
Intelligent Agents
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Representation
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Neural Networks
Natural Language Processing
Planning and Scheduling
Reasoning
Robotics
Search Techniques
Soft Computing
Speech Processing
Theorem Proving
Uncertainty Handling
Vision

Full papers (abstracts alone will not be accepted) must be submitted
electronically at the conference website (preferred) or by e-mail. All
submissions will be individually acknowledged by e-mail.  Papers must
contain an abstract not exceeding 250 words. Papers must be no more
than 10 pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references
and appendices. Papers must be submitted in PDF/single-file HTML
format. Refereeing will be 'blind' and hence authors' names and
affiliations must be given on a separate cover sheet only.

Instructions regarding the format of submissions will are available at
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/kbcs2004.tar.gz Papers in the Natural
Language Processing area, without strong AI content may be transferred
to ICON-2004 depending on the decision of Programme Committee.

Advisory Committee
------------------
Aravind K. Joshi, Univ. of Pennsylvania
P.V.S Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai
R. Narasimhan, CMC, Bangalore

Programme Committee
------------------
K.S.R Anjaneyulu, HP Labs, Bangalore
Vivek Balaraman, TRDDC, Pune
Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Mumbai
P.P. Chakraborti, IIT Kharagpur
S. Kambhampati, Arizona State University
M. Narasimha Murty, IISc, Bangalore
Bernd Neumann, Univ. of Hamburg
Arun K. Pujari, Univ. of Hyderabad
S. Ramani, HP Labs, Bangalore
P.V.S Rao, Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai (Chair)
Durgesh D. Rao, DR Systems, Mumbai
P. Saint-Dizier, Univ. of Paul Sabatier, France
K. Samudravijaya, TIFR, Mumbai
R. Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad
M. Sasikumar, C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST) (co-chair)
S. Sengupta, Tata Infotech Ltd, Mumbai
R. Uthurusamy, GMR Labs, USA (co-chair)


Contact Address
---------------
KBCS-2004 Secretariat,
C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9,
Juhu, Mumbai 400 049,
India

Phone: +91-22-26201606 kbcs@...
Fax: +91-22-26210139 www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

regs,
  Kavitha
==============================================================
KBCS-2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs/kbcs2004/
---------------------------------------------------------------
Kavitha M, KBCS division, C-DAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST)
E-mail: kavitham@...; Ph. No: +91-22-2620 16 06 x:372
===============================================================

Hello, this is the announcement/reminder about the quarterly DC
Transhumanists gathering. ( DCT ).

It will be held, as usual, on the first thursday of June at Hamburger
Hamlet, Crystal City Virginia, convenient to the yellow and blue lines
of the Washington Metrorail system.

As you come up the steps from the station of the same name, take the
doors on the RIGHT and follow the corridor around the square.

The meeting starts at 7:00 and runs untill the metro closes at around
11:30.

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SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW
SCI-CON.ORG NEWSLETTER
==================================

April 6, 2004

ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
==================================
1. SCR Original: Peripheral drift illusion
2. Featured Research - TMS Study of ventral projections from V1 with
implications for finding the NCC
3. Featured Research - Auditory Processing in brain injured patients
reveals differences between Minimally Conscious State and Persistent
Vegetative State
4. Featured Research - Avoidance of obstacles in the absence of visual
awareness
5. Brain Activation May Explain PTSD Flashbacks
6. News - Memories are harder to forget than currently thought
7. Obituary for Donald Griffin; 3/Aug/1915 - 7/Nov/2003
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1. Peripheral drift illusion
by Thomas Z. Ramsøy
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Illusions always seem to capture our attention, and they strike us as
strange and interesting. However, we often do not think of these odd
sensations as mere curiosities. In spite of this, a growing literature
on illusions points to the fact that these sensations are not only
interesting in themselves; they are potent sources for insight into
normal vision.

Read More: http://www.sci-con.org/articles/20040401.html
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2. TMS Study of ventral projections from V1 with implications for
finding the NCC
    Overgaard M, Nielsen JF, Fuglsang-Frederiksen A
    University of Aarhus, Denmark
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The study of subliminal perception in normal and brain lesioned
subjects has long been of interest to scholars studying the neural
mechanisms behind conscious vision. Using brief durations and a
developed methodology of introspective reporting, we present an
experiment with visual stimuli that gives rise to little or no
subliminal perception under normal viewing conditions. Coupled with
transcranial magnetic stimulation, however, we find a dissociation
between correctness and conscious awareness. Furthermore, we find
support for the hypothesis that the ventral projection streams from V1
are necessary for visual consciousness.

Read More: http://tinyurl.com/2x34l [ScienceDirect.com]
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3. Auditory processing in severely brain injured patients: Differences
between the minimally conscious state and persistent vegetative state.
    Mélanie Boly et al.
    Cyclotron Research Center, Belgium
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Background: The minimally conscious state (MCS) is a recently defined
clinical condition; it differs from the persistent vegetative state
(PVS) by the presence of inconsistent, but clearly discernible,
behavioral evidence of consciousness.

Results: In both patients in an MCS and the healthy controls, auditory
stimulation activated bilateral superior temporal gyri (Brodmann areas
41, 42, and 22). In patients in a PVS, the activation was restricted
to Brodmann areas 41 and 42 bilaterally. We also showed that, compared
with patients in a PVS, patients in an MCS demonstrated a stronger
functional connectivity between the secondary auditory cortex and
temporal and prefrontal association cortices.

Conclusion: Although assumptions about the level of consciousness in
severely brain injured patients are difficult to make, our findings
suggest that the cerebral activity observed in patients in an MCS is
more likely to lead to higher-order integrative processes, thought to
be necessary for the gain of conscious auditory perception.

Read More: http://tinyurl.com/2hlca [JAMA Journal Archives]
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4. Avoidance of obstacles in the absence of visual awareness
    R. McIntosh; K. McClements; I. Schindler
    University of Durham, UK
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The spatial character of our reaching movements is extremely sensitive
to potential obstacles in the workspace. We recently found that this
sensitivity was retained by most patients with left visual neglect
when reaching between two objects, despite the fact that they tended
to ignore the leftward object when asked to bisect the space between
them. This raises the possibility that obstacle avoidance does not
require a conscious awareness of the obstacle avoided. We have now
tested this hypothesis in a patient with visual extinction following
right temporoparietal damage. Extinction is an attentional disorder in
which patients fail to report stimuli on the side of space opposite a
brain lesion under conditions of bilateral stimulation. Our patient
avoided obstacles during reaching, to exactly the same degree,
regardless of whether he was able to report their presence. This
implicit processing of object location, which may depend on spared
superior parietal-lobe pathways, demonstrates that conscious
awareness is not necessary for normal obstacle avoidance.

Read More: http://tinyurl.com/24t3o [IngentaSelect.com]
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5. Brain Activation May Explain PTSD Flashbacks
    American Psychiatric Association News
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PTSD subjects appear to process traumatic memories differently from
subjects without PTSD. This difference may help explain why people
with PTSD tend to recall traumatic memories as visual flashbacks,
while those without the disorder recall verbal narratives.

When persons with posttraumatic stress disorder remember trauma, right
areas of their brains tend to be activated, whereas when^ individuals
without PTSD remember trauma, left areas of their^ brains are apt to
be aroused, according to a study reported^ in the January /American
Journal of Psychiatry.

Read More: http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/cont
ent/full/39/6/61?etoc
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6. Memories are harder to forget than currently thought
    EurekaAlert
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Previous studies in rodents had shown that the process of encoding a
memory could be blocked by the use of a protein synthesis inhibitor
called anisomycin. Experiments with anisomycin helped lead to the
acceptance of a theory in which a learned behavior is consolidated
into a stored form and that then enters a 'labile' - or adaptable -
state when it is recalled. According to these previous studies, the
act of putting a labile memory back into storage involves a
reconsolidation process identical to the one used to store the memory
initially. Indeed, experiments showed that anisomycin could make a
mouse forget a memory if it were given anisomycin directly after
remembering an event.

In the PNAS study, however, the Penn researchers showed that
disruption of a "re-remembered" memory was not permanent.

"When we looked at mice 21 days after they were treated with
anisomycin to block the reconsolidation of a memory, we showed that
they could, in fact, remember the original learned behavior," Lattal
said. "If you use the anisomycin, you can destroy a 'fresh' memory,
but the 'forgetting' effect of anisomycin on an established memory is
only temporary, at best."

Read More:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/uop-mah031504.php
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7. Obituary for Donald Griffin; 3/Aug/1915 - 7/Nov/2003
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We announce with great regret the passing of Donald R. Griffin, the
foremost pioneer in modern times of scientific research on animal
consciousness. Griffin broke a scientific taboo by suggesting that
animals might have the capacity to think and reason, and that
scientists should study these mental processes. This gave rise to the
field known as cognitive ethology and, in general, animal sentience.

Born in Southampton, N.Y., Dr. Griffin received his bachelor's,
master's, and doctorate degrees from Harvard and worked there from
1953 to 1965. He worked at Rockefeller University from 1965 to 1986.
His wife, Jocelyn Crane, died in 1998. He leaves two daughters, Janet
Abbott of Arlington, and Margaret Griffin of Montreal, and a son,
John, of Boston.

Read More: http://www.animalsentience.com/features/donald_griffin.htm
            http://www.whoi.edu/media/obits/d_griffin.html
            http://tinyurl.com/ywa5e [Boston.com]
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Science and Consciousness Review <http://www.sci-con.org>

CALL FOR PAPERS

KBCS-2004
THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE BASED COMPUTER SYSTEMS
December 19-22, 2004, Hyderabad

http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

The next international conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems
will be held in Hyderabad, in December, 2004. The conference is intended
to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the
field of Artificial Intelligence in India and abroad.  The International
Conference on Natural Language Processing(ICON) will be held concurrently
at the same venue.

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Submission Deadlines

Registration of Paper: July 1, 2004
Paper Submission: July 10, 2004
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2004
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Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research on
all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to the
following:

Case Based Reasoning      Cognitive Modelling   Data Mining
Expert Systems            Foundations of AI     Fuzzy Logic
Genetic Algorithms        Intelligent Agents    Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Knowledge Acquisition     Knowledge Management  Knowledge Representation
Machine Learning          Machine Translation   Intelligent Information
Retrieval
Planning and Scheduling   Neural Networks       Natural Language Processing
Reasoning                 Robotics              Search Techniques
Soft Computing            Speech Processing     Theorem Proving
Uncertainty Handling      Vision


Full papers (abstracts alone will not be accepted) must be submitted
electronically at the conference Web site (preferred) or by e-mail.
All submissions will be individually acknowledged by e-mail.  Papers must
contain an abstract not exceeding 250 words. Papers must be no more
than 10 pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references
and appendices. Instructions regarding the format of submissions will soon be
available on the website. Papers must be submitted in PDF/HTML format.

Papers in the Natural Language Processing area, without strong AI content
may be transferred to ICON-2004 depending on the decision of Programme
Committees.

Contact Address
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KBCS-2004 Secretariat,
C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST)
Gulmohar Cross Rd No. 9,
Juhu, Mumbai 400 049,
India

Phone: +91-22-26201606 kbcs@...
Fax: +91-22-26210139 www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2004/

regs,
  Kavitha
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KBCS-2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs/kbcs2004/
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Kavitha M, KBCS division, C-DAC Mumbai (erstwhile NCST)
E-mail: kavitham@...; Ph. No: +91-22-2620 16 06 x:372
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om,

To anyone interested:

I've been hacking on my image processor and have optomized the runtime
down to 12-25% of what it was previously depending on which function you
need. (it is super-fast for 32-bit base images).

Also, I have added code for the little known, seldom documented
Koniocellular pathway.

I am very satisfied with this current version and I am ready to move on
to the next phase.

I reciently learned how to actually use the periodicals database at my
university library (I'm at a remote site with no library).

What I really need is, as concicely as possible the following:

-- The most current and complete bordman's map of cortical regions.

-- The best theories/observations of the connection-patterns between
said bordman's areas...

IE: "region V1 has a subcortical pathway to V2, V3 etc.."