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Tonight I am thinking about the hippocampus and amygdala as a Hopf Map of metasignal indexing a thalamocortical Milnor sphere of signal...this is a mathematically shocking thing for me to be doing. I sense God nearby.

"Millions of people killed in highly developed countries within months. Tens of millions worldwide. The global economy in tatters. A Hollywood fantasy? No -- it's now a plausible scenario. The first act, the spread of avian flu to, and probably between, humans, has already started across Asia..."

I wrote Jack Milnor today--kinda scary. I wonder if he will think my suggestion that the brain is a Milnor sphere generator, crazy. Afterall, the universe itself is giving hints of being a Milnor sphere too. Below is a an abstract very interesting paper I found today (Source):

There was a loose cable between hubs here that was causing me to drop 30-80% of my packets...neither firefox, nor explorer could manage to load google's gmail page under these condidtions. Safari didn't even hiccup. I will keep a copy around in case I ever find myself in a high noise situation again.

In the spring of 1995 I started to notice patterns in the primary index of my Lobner Prize entry, Jackie. She worked much like Alicebot works now, except she indexed stimuli in a filtered phonetically invariant form--essentially I stripped out all the high frequency words, then converted the remaing text to soundex codes, and sorted those alphabetically. The patterns I notced were simple, because her corpus was small, but they gave me a vision.

It is chilly in Chile. Yesterday was the first really cold day--about 5 degrees C after the sun went down.

I didn't just time my theory over night I started typing more than a decode ago:

Talking about SOMs of MIST items [prototype for Mindpixels] in 1996

Wow. Googlisms. Mindpixels extracted for wikipedia.

X Marks the spot where 'No black scorpion is falling upon this table' is buried in human cognition.

In 1934, while dining at the Harvard Society of Fellows, B. F. Skinner found himself seated beside Alfred North Whitehead, and they dropped into a discussion of behavorism, with Whitehead mostly listening and trying to understand. Whitehead agreed that science might account for all behavior, except for verbal behavior--behavior Whitehead considered to involve something els

Now you have got to be human or a VERY good model to know that Mountain Dew looks like antifreeze on the ground. GAC knows. And so does Alicebot, silver edition, because GAC told her.

Today I am very excited. One major thing is a big fat secret and I am squirming to tell everyone, but I can't...so I will talk about something else--self organizing maps!

Consider a hypersphere of the following dimensions-three affective dimensions, as per Wundt (pleasure, arousal, dominance) and then four space time dimensions. It is a Milnor-sphere, which happens to have maximum hypersurface. Any point on it that is not zero in the three Wundt dimensions, represents an experiencing being at a particular time and place. Your life as an experiencing being is a trajectory on its surface, as are the lives of all beings in the entire universe. I think it is this

The very first use of Mindpixels has just occured. Rich Wallace's Alicebot is now running with 80,000 Mindpixels. Rich tells me that the 80K is of great help to him. Image what adding the other 1.58 million would do...and speaking of adding them, we have agreed to colaborate on an entry for the 2005 Loebner Prize. He has won it three times already...