Pandemonium,
Oliver Selfridge, 1959.

A paradigm for learning.
In Symposium on the mechanization of thought processes. 

Selfridge envisioned the mind as a collection of tiny demons, each of whom responds to a name – or something close to it – being called out by other demons.  When one thinks it is being called, it begins to yell out to other demons.  The more certain it is that it is being called, the louder it yells, until some other demon thinks it is being called in turn.  And so on.  Selfridge called this pandemonium.

Pandemonium,
Oliver Selfridge, 1959.

A paradigm for learning.
In Symposium on the mechanization of thought processes. 

Selfridge envisioned the mind as a collection of tiny demons, each of whom responds to a name – or something close to it – being called out by other demons.  When one thinks it is being called, it begins to yell out to other demons.  The more certain it is that it is being called, the louder it yells, until some other demon thinks it is being called in turn.  And so on.  Selfridge called this pandemonium.

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