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Diagram

/^^^^^^^^^\ KbTraversal Reactivates Concepts /^^^^^^^^^\ / visual \ from the English Bootstrap Vault / _________ \ / memory \ / / vault \ \ | _______ | | | | | | | | | | | / of EnBoot \ | | /old \ | | | | | | | | | | | | memories || | / image \---|----+ | | | | | | | + | | "YOU..." || | \ recog / | y|p|r|t| | | + | | | | "PEOPLE..."|| | \_______/ | o|e|o|r| + | | | | | | "ROBOTS..."|| | | u|o|b|u| | | | + | | | "TRUTH..."/ | | | |p|o|t| | | | | | | \_________/ | | | |l|t|h| | | | | | |oldest memories| | | |e|s| | | | | | | |being forgotten| | _______ | | | | | | | | | | | ________ | | /new \ | _|_|_|_|_ |_|_|_|_| | / \ | | / percept \ | / Psi \----/ English \---|-/ Auditory \ | | \ engram /---|-/ concepts \--/ lexicon \--|-\ phonemes / | | \_______/ | \___________/ \___________/ | \________/ |

Purpose

The module of KbTraversal serves two main purposes: * Making the AI more interesting to interact with; * Rousing the AI from a flatliner braindead state.

Entelechy

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Operation

The ReJuvenate module calls KbTraversal if there has been no user input since the last call to ReJuvenate. The presumption is that the AI needs to think new thoughts by activating concepts in the EnBoot English bootstrap sequence of innate knowledge. This technique may need further refinement if the AI tends to get so absorbed in its own thoughts that any invocation of KbTraversal constitutes an interruption of thought and a derailing from a train of thought worthy of preoccupation in its own right. We do not want involuntary KbTraversal to become the robot analog of ElectroShockTherapy in humans.

The original idea with KbTraversal was that it should traverse the KnowledgeBase (KB) of accumulated ideas and reactivate ideas that had fallen into desuetude. Since there was always the possibility that a human user had introduced typographical errors or outright nonsense into the AI KB, and that KbTraversal could save the wrong ideas from the normal oblivion of the oldest memories in ReJuvenate, KbTraversal was implemented on 3.SEP.2008 with a range of traversal restricted to the carefully composed knowledge statements of the EnBoot sequence. Since KbTraversal reactivates only a single concept and not a whole idea, user input in the lifelong memory space may still play a role in what the AI Mind thinks at the behest of KbTraversal, but there is less danger of an item of nonsense being reactivated, since the emerging thought starts out from one of several subject concepts presented to the Mind on a rotating basis as pre-ordained by the AI programmer.

KbTraversal is not a natural mind-module but rather it is an especially artificial feature beyond the ordinary mind-emulation of artificial intelligence. The KbTraversal module is launched or invoked by another especially artificial module, the ReJuvenate module which performs an operation not available in natural human minds. These unnaturally artificial modules are necessary because the primitive AI Minds do not have enough memory for a long mental life-span (in the case of the ReJuvenate module), and because the lack of sensory input from robotic embodiment makes a disembodied AI Mind tend to lapse into waiting for human input rather than following its own internal chains of meandering thought.

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