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Subject: Revised Notes from last e-mailing
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I am a victim of too quick on the UNIX mouse button and mailed you
ny thoughts before I proof read them.
Eeeek.
. .they were full of too fast
typing mistakes and outright misspellings.
I am very sorry.
Please junk that
last mail and use the corrected version below.
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Revised notes follow:
Hello.
As I begin going through an extraordinary mound of material a
thought occurred to me.
I do not know exactly what your time constraints
are , but of the amount allocated to you by the Congressional directive, you
might consider contracting to us for
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work beginning ASAP.
(This is NOT an formal or informal proposal—just an
SG1D
idea to help you with what appears to be a very difficult job.
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SG1D
For
. 6-months , you and I would work closely together to
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the
project into a manageable form for proper review by the NAS.
I would suggest
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Giving the NAS anything short
of a
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data set would be impossible to interpret by any honest review
scientists.
All this might include positive and negative testimonials that
exist.
Also, we might include selected examples—I am generally not in
favor of showing gee-whizz examples because they can significantly mislead
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bat perhaps in this case it might be instructive to illustrate specific
points.
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I define application-oriented research as that which is primarily aimed
at improving the AC output.
Basic research is that which, is primarily
aimed at understanding the mechanisms
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II.
Application-Oriented Research
We will provide a single
(readable)
document that describes a meta-analysis
(psychology jargon for quantitative review)
of all the government-sponsored
research in this domain.
That would include selecting receivers
(i.e., human subjects),
training them,
assessing
(analyzing)
their output,
and
protocol issues
(e.g.
, what are the procedural, physical, and psychological
circumstances for optimal performance.)
Such an analysis would include
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what is
"known" and why, what is suspected,
and what seams not to be trueS
It might also include what would be done in the future,
given that the
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III.
Basic Research
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We will provide a single document that describes a mata-analysis of all the\
government-sponsored basic research.
That includes issues like physical
parameters
(e.g., grad (Shannon Entropy)
, brain wave activity, and
information transmission characteristics)
.
Knowns,
unknowns, and future
directions would also be included.
IV.
A number of 5 year plans have been wnritten.
We would up-date the most
recent one as a template on how to proceed,
IF it is decided to do so.
This
also could include a list of knowns,
unknowns, and speculations and their
justifications.
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V.
There have been a number of government-sponsored reviews
off' this J
work.
We would provide to you critical analysis of those reviews""and,
where appropriate,
the rebuttals,
and hard copy of the original pertinent
publications.
That would include reviews by:
NRC,
CTA,
Army,
TWo OSD
and
DIA.
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Vi.
We will provide access to an august group of national/international class
scientists and government representatives who would be able to provide
independent views to the ms panel.
VII.
Other respected scientists have published in main-stream journals
showing the results of their analysis and experiments which suggest an
information-transfer-ancmaly
(we call Anomalous Cognition)
.
We should
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