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## Notes
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The stencil registration mechanism discussed above is not currently
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implemented. The current design relies on the cooperative relationship
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between SMO and stimbuff libraries, where stimbuffs are expected to respect
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the n-stencils limit without requiring explicit registration or validation
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by SMO.
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# Stencil Design:
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Right now, I think we have an attachmentSupport stencil base class, right?
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## Opaque, per-stimbuffapi? Or SMO-standardized, per-format?
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I think stencils will have to be opaque derived types of that base class, and
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each stimbuff api lib will have to export its own derived stencil type, perhaps.
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Alternatively, since the output data format exposed by a stimbuff is conformant to a qualeifaceapi's expectations, maybe stencils should be decided by SMO and then used jointly between and by the stimbuffapis and the qualifaceapis. I think this is better, actually. So stencils are per-stimbuff data format-specific, and not perstimbuffapi opaque.
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## Stencils: where do they fit in, and what are they?
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Stencils are mentena. They are the result of abstraction and projection.
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When the direction of operation is from quale soup to interpretion/knowledge,
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they are produced from the stimframe -- this is abstraction.
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When the direction of operation is from a mathobj to the soup in order to
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compare an abstract notion to the data in a stimframe, they are created by
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artificing a new stencil which satisfies the properties of the mathobj whose
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properties need to be compared against the stimframe soup data -- this is
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projection.
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I.e: stencils are implexed mental phenomena. They are what Ayn Rand calls,
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"Implicit existents", or what conventional AI researchers call "Regions of
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Interest".
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## Abstraction and projection:
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Cognition is possible because the body helps the mind to perform its first
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abstractions. When intrins occur, the sense organ is aware of where the intrin
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is located and what its intensity is, and what ought to be done with the intrin.
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The intrin can tell the mind:
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* Where its attention ought to be directed (stencil of BodySpots).
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* What it ought to do with the intrin (autogoal with reference values to
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achieve).
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* How to tell when the required operation has been satisfied (comparators
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attached to the stencil).
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In this respect, yet again, it seems like the mind is not in charge of the body.
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Rather, the body literally gives the mind missives to fulfill, along with
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completion criteria. Nietzsche seems to be correct again:
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> The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
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> An instrument of thy body is also thy little sagacity, my brother, which thou callest "spirit"- a little instrument and plaything of thy big sagacity.
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>
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> "Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing- in which thou art unwilling to believe- is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
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## But how ought these things be put together as an abstract data structure?
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I understand that the comparators should hold the autogoal's reference values
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(which are within the stencil) as their ref operand.
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I understand that a cologex is a string of comparators, each having its own
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reference operand and a var operand as the slot for whatever it will eventually
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be compared against.
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### Are mentena the top-level, identity objects? Or are cologexes?
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I guess I just keep thinking that the stencil should be some kind of central
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mentenon that holds all of the comparators in an array. But maybe this is wrong.
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Maybe we should allow a situation where a single cologex has comparators of
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different kinds, and each one may point to different mentena. It will simply
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be the case that most of the time, the referent mentena for the comparators
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within any given single cologex will usually be a single mentenon. But this may
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not be necessary.
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```
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cologex = collection of comparators;
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comparator = reference value + method for comparison;
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reference value = <stencil|mathobj|3dobj>
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```
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### What does the stimbuffapi give to the mind?
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We have two paradigms for thinking about this, and hitherto we've been thinking
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about it as, the stimbuffapi gives the mind a stencil, with a comparator that
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allows the mind to use that stencil to determine autogoal completion.
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Perhaps we should be thinking about it as: the stimbuffapi gives the mind a
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cologex with a set of comparators, and those comparators' ref operands happen to
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point at this stencil which has been filled with these values that the
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stimbuffapi wants the mind to achieve.
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So: it's not that the body gives the mind a stencil. Rather: the body gives the
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mind a cologex. The cologex encodes ref operands which, if the mind pursued,
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would achieve the body's goals. The focus isn't on the stencil, but rather on
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the comparators...nay, even more: on the cologex.
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## Cologexes as the top-level pertinence determiners for memory?
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Do we store stencils on HDD for their own sake, as ends in themselves? Or do we
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store them for as long as they're attached to a comparator?
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And do we store comparators for their own sake? Or do we store them for as long
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as they're instrumentally valuable for achieving an autogoal?
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It seems like cologexes are the root of the knowledge graph, and more than that:
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the cologexes constructed by stimbuffapis are the root cologexes of the mind's
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knowledge graph? And we can "forget" and evict mentities based on their
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relationship to our cologex graph.
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## But still: what do stimbuffapis hand over to the mind in pos/negtrinCInd?
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They hand over a cologex, with a comparator, whose ref operand is a stencil,
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which has been filled with reference values that are pertinent to that intrin.
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* For a negtrin, the ref values in the stencil will be 0s.
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* For a postrin the ref values in the stencil will be INT_MAX or something.
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### And how does the mind use this?
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The only way to answer this is to first figure out what a goal is, relative to/
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within our taxonomy of data structures and notions. Because ultimately, the
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stimbuffapi is trying to give the mind a goal -- an auto-generated goal.
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What's the difference between a concept and a goal? Concepts are cologexes that
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state the criteria for qualifying to be a member of that concept. We compare
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data against the comparators in a cologex to deduce what that data should be
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classified as.
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Goals seem to be, at the same time, cologexes, yet something more.
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We need a stencil type that encodes the intrin spots within an [light/dark]ambience stimframe. We also need comparators, but we'll deal with that after. |