[PIC] Love among the cyborgs

The following ASCII diagram shows how emotional robots or cyborgs
might generate a thought such as, "I operate because I love you."
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/conjoin.html is the URL of the Mind.


   /^^^^^^^^^\   Thinking "...because I love you"  /^^^^^^^^^\
  / visual    \     | | |   ____________          / auditory  \
 /  memory     \    | | |  / Conjoined  \        /  memory     \
|   channel     |   | | | (  Sentence    )      |   channel     |
|   _______     |   | | |  \____________/-------|-------\       |
|  /image  \    |   | | |    |     |   \        |       |       |
| / percept \---|-----+ |    |     |    \____   |       |       |
| \ engram  /   |  a| | |    |     |    /Verb\  |       |       |
|  \_______/    |  b|c| |    |     |   (Phrase) |       |       |
|               |  s|o|f|    |     |   /\____/  |       |       |
|               |  t|n|i|    |    _V__/   |     |       |       |
|               |  r|c|b|    |   /Noun\   |     |       |       |
|               |  a|e|e|    |  (Phrase)  |     |    ___|___    |
|               |  c|p|r|   _V_  \____/   |     |   /       \   |
|               |  t|t|s|  /   \   |      |     |  /         \  |
|               |   | | | (Conj.)  |      |     |  |"because"|  |
|               |   | | |  \___/   |      |     |  |         |  |
|               |   | | |          |      |     |  |"I"      |  |
|   _______     |   | | |  ________V_   __V__   |  |         |  |
|  /fresh  \    |   |_|_| ( English  ) / En  \--|--|"love"   |  |
| / image   \   |  /     \ \ Nouns  / / Verbs \ |  |         |  |
| \ engram  /---|--\ Psi /--\      /  \_______/ |  \"you"    /  |
|  \_______/    |   \___/    \____/-------------|---\_______/   |

-- 
http://aibokennelclub.dyndns.org/mind.html -- at Aibo Kennel CLub
http://mind.sourceforge.net/webcyc.html#roboclub Clubs for Robots
http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/index.html -- a rough-draft textbook
http://www.top500.org -- TOP500 AI-Ready Supercomputer Mind Sites

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 19:11:55 +0000 (UTC), uj7...@victoria.tc.ca (Arthur
T. Murray) wrote:

>The following ASCII diagram shows how emotional robots or cyborgs
>might generate a thought such as, "I operate because I love you."

(Better judgement suppresses ASCII diagram showing how robot might
express "I mutilate because I hate you.")  So when the magic is gone
from the relationship, it will start to malfunction?

[snip]

They have this thing nowadays that they call a "life"; perhaps you
should consider getting one.

-- 
Bill Snyder   [This space unintentionally left blank.]