Giant brains; or, Machines that thinkBerkeley, Edmund Callis
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Giant brains; or, Machines that think
Berkeley, Edmund Callis
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2. An utterance Pooh![2] Spoken The speaker Pooh-pooh
becomes a English expresses theory
new word disdain
3. New word is Chortle[2] Spoken “Chuckle” Analogical
like another English; and
word invented by “snort”
Lewis Carroll, blended
1896
4. Word has Mother[2] Spoken Female Historical
been used English parent
through
the ages
_Sights_
5. Picture [picture Egyptian; Picture of Imitative;
is like of eye] Ojibwa eye and pictographic
referent (American tears, to
Indian) mean grief
6. Pattern is 5 English; Five; Ideographic;
symbol of French; cinq; mathematical;
an idea German; fünf; symbolic;
etc. etc. numeric
_Mapping of Sounds_
7. Object [picture Possible Picture of Rebus-
pictured of knot] English a knot to writing;
has the mean “not” phonographic
wanted
sound
8. Pattern is [picture Ancient Sign for Syllable-
symbol for of star] Cypriote the writing
a large (island of syllable
sound unit Cyprus) _mu_
9. Pattern is Ʒ International The sound Phonetic
symbol for Phonetic _zh_, as writing
a small Alphabet of _s_ in alphabetic
sound unit 87 characters “measure” writing;
_Mapping of Sights or Symbols_
10. Systematic ENIAC Abbreviations, Initial Alphabetic
combinations etc. letters coding
of 26 of a
letters 5-word
title
11. Systematic 135-03-1228 Abbreviations, Social Numeric
combinations nomenclature, Security coding
of 10 digits etc. No. of
a person
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