digital perspective: An “image” of the universe, stored as a web of idea modules in memory.

• Each module has a name (ex: “pudding”, “joy”, “Martha Stewart”, “death”, “the word at”)
• Modules can be simple (words, ideas, memories, descriptions, prepositions, etc), sense-replicatory (see an image, hear a sound, whatever), or procedural (a list of steps to be carried out by the brain).
• Each module has pointers, which point to other modules (should there be types of pointers? labels, groups, causes, effects, definitions, similar… hmm…)
• Priority in terms of space is given to ideas used most often, which usually means pointed to most often.
• Priority of pointers due to behavioral cues, most memorable, “logical reasoning”, and stuff?
• Functions to add, modify, and merge modules.

Example Pseudocode (of a simple module):

pudding
memory340127856 (the memory of me laughing uncontrollably about pudding last year)
pudding-image (pudding-image will point to visual sensory modules; this list will also include any memories of seeing pudding; Note: this will clearly be dependent on the machine having the ability of sight)
food
dessert
pudding-taste (will similarly point to taste sensory modules)

… and more stuff, depending on what pointers are most often necessary.

Questions:
1. How will the machine organize and prioritize? Through procedural modules?
2. How will language work? Are there just many procedures for handling language?

Propose an improvement? Or let me know if something here seems completely unreasonable?

I wish my computer had more memory/were just fasteringeneral.

Doing anything with vectors in Fireworks gets tough once the shape becomes sufficiently complex.

Anyway.

I was a little bored this morning. Yes, it’s mostly done in MS Paint. Don’t kill me, please.

I wish I could do more.

“Can never ever ever die
By any other way but frying…”

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I think my computer has fried. I may be wrong (and that eleven hours isn’t long enough for it to completely dry out), but it’s entirely possible that my computer has died. By frying.

Alright. STORY TIME!

I was playing the Gigue to the 6th Suite (as I tend to do on Saturday nights when the rest of the world is partying) and I just couldn’t get the light just right, and it was really frustrating me. I usually just reach back and turn on Isaac’s desk lights, but I couldn’t reach them from where I was, and, being particularly lazy, I didn’t feel like walking to the middle of the room to put my cello down and walk back.

So I messed with the dumb clip-on lamp. Turns out I don’t have enough strength in my right hand to clip it onto my bookshelf. Turns out, with one hand, I managed to drop the lamp, which then proceeded to knock over the water onto my keyboard.

So. I held the power button with my right index finger while holding my cello and bow in my left hand. I then put my cello down (finally) and paper-toweled the keys. Put the laptop on a towel on my bed, and then mopped up the water that had been underneath (it had been sitting in a sizable puddle).

Well, when I attempted to turn it on after about 10 minutes of drying out, the monitor flickered and it turned off (I hope that the effect of a safety mechanism and not DEATH).

Um. Well, of course, I then had to use the screen as my music stand to finish practicing. I went backwards through the 6th suite, and then played most of the 5th (C minor, a great key for what I was feeling at the moment).

Tried turning it on again afterwards, same thing happened.
Left it overnight. Slept without brushing my teeth.

Turned it on in the morning and I noticed two things:
1) The monitor was REALLY dim. Like, almost impossible to read.
2) Windows wouldn’t start. In normal mode, the thing just turned off. In safe mode, it just gave me DOS crap.

So, anyway, I’m sitting here in the computer lab, enjoying Regina through my iPod. If anyone wants to, um, come with me to Micro Center or something sometime? Or drive me there? (ha) Maybe I want to wait for a while to see if it needs to dry out more. Hrm…