- summary an AI Mind is conscious of only one cresting concept at a time
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Synopsis
The Moving Wave Algorithm (MWA) emerged within the MindForth project in 2005 as the solution to a problem. Whereas in the earliest versions of MindForth, activation-levels for old and new concepts had been set according to rigid and arbitrary rules, by September of 2005 it was becoming clear that the activation rules were too rigid. For instance, it no longer seemed necessary to grant concepts of user input an arbitrarily high activation-level that could swamp and override the activation levels on the thoughts being thought internally by the AI. The new idea was to let the peak activation-levels be "up for grabs," so to speak. If what the AI was thinking internally was more important than the user input, then the user input should not dislodge chains of thought already underway inside the AI Mind. User input should go at least into the SubConscious but not necessarily and not always to the very center of ConSciousness. But what should replace the rigid rules of activation? The Moving Wave Algorithm was born in September of 2005 as a way to make the activation rules extremely simple -- only one concept would be allowed to be exceptionally active at a time.
The MWA solved several problems simultaneously. It not only let internal concepts and input concepts compete for the attention of the thinking software; it also made the generation of linguistic thought more straightforward and easier to manage. Whereas previously all the concepts in a thought might attain and hold a high, peaking level of activation, under the Moving Wave Algorithm each cresting concept had to give way and lose its high activation as the next concept in the chain of thought rose sharply upwards into ConSciousness.
The MWA also started to accentuate and emphasize the role of the SubConscious not only in artificial minds, but perhaps also in natural minds. When we develop elaborate ideas about the upper levels of activation which are the realm of ConSciousness, we also map out details of the SubConscius machinery in the middle levels of conceptual activation.
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* Activation Rules (webpage) * http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/actrules.html
* List of Algorithms on WikiPedia * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_algorithms
* Moving Wave Algorithm [Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) mail-list] * http://www.mail-archive.com/agi@v2.listbox.com/msg02527.html
* Mind.Forth Moving-Wave Algorithm (20 September 2005) * http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/win32forth/message/10262
* Moving Wave Algorithm (20 September 2005) * http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/theory-edge/message/11410
* PsiDamp mind-module as previously documented * http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/psidamp.html * http://mind.sourceforge.net/psidamp.html
* PsiDecay mind-module as previously documented * http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/psidecay.html * http://mind.sourceforge.net/psidecay.html
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