Paramind and the Internet 
 
	Beginning in April 1994 Paramind Brainstorming Software has announced 
a project for the Internet: a site for unique and useful computer-generated 
writing.  Paramind users worldwide will be contributing new idea-lists to this site, 
browsing what others have done, and even downloading ideas that they find 
interesting.   This will be based around the new science of telical word-
interaction exhaustion.   The theory of telical word-interaction exhaustion states 
that progress does not have to  be held in check by the tinkering of man,  but by 
re-thinking  the discovery process.  By attempting the exhaustion of  the 
meaningful interactions of words,   we will be able  to find out all  manner of 
novel directions, and discover answers to problems that have been plaguing us 
for years.  
 
	Our dictionary contains all the words that the books of our library 
contains.  All our libraries is the interaction of the words of our dictionary in 
logical meaningful ways.  If we were to exhaust the logical meaningful 
interactions of our words we would come up with new discoveries that we are 
bound to stumble upon in the future by pre-existing means. 
 
	We must have an unbiased look at the toolbox of language for being the 
seeds of all possible knowledge available to us. We can't put restrictions on the 
amorphous form of the new.   The logical quantum-leap in thought is  the idea 
that ideas can be treated as a  plasticity and only by examining huge quantities 
of idea-lists will we grow faster than how our minds currently experience 
breakthroughs.  There must be some rules and these rules are provided by the 
context sensitive copy-merge technique and word-category parsing (both found 
in the Paramind Brainstorming program). 
 
	It is this program that can radically alter the speed in which we arrive at 
better solutions in medical research, ecological solutions for manufacturing 
science, even social mediation.  In fact, the cognitive expansion of whatever 
problem ails us can be helped by this technique. 
 
	The process of telical word-interaction exhaustion develops a  change in 
the  perceptions of potential reality,  the  value of  how things  could be  
compared to how  things are. We need to see how the future could be, the best 
possible scenarios. 
  
	Paramind and the Internet Site for Computer Generated writing is a tool 
for  seeing potential reality. The new science of telical word-interaction 
exhaustion is a description of all that could be, because it is an unbiased use of 
pure  language. It is  a use of  language outside the  mind of man. It  is Artificial 
Intelligence  planned out by  both man and computer.  
  
	Why the Internet?  Never before has there been a means of hooking up 
together people who have the insight to achieve what we before have thought to 
be the impossible.  This idea can get  so advanced that there must be a 
networking of those who can use it and discuss it with others.  The Internet 
offers complete indexing facilities so that other uses of Paramind can look at the 
work done by Paramind users around the world. 
    
	This Internet site must contain a database of ideas that are new, useful 
and unique,   ideas which are not quite incorporated into our present world. 
Science fiction novels are a great area for such ideas.  Any other area producing 
such ideas are welcome.  Idea-lists from this "new, useful and unique" idea 
database would produce valuable library findings.   Imagine thousands of 
variations of the most exciting science-fiction ideas, ideas which have only been 
touched upon in a few sentences by science-fiction authors. 

	To accept telical word-interaction exhaustion does not mean that one
thinks the people who use this technique actually believe that they will exhaust 
the meaningful interactions of all words but use it as an exposition of any given 
area. Telical word-interaction exhaustive exposition is the name of a research 
technique based on this theory. 
 
	We can get  at a framework for the  meaningful exhaustion of the  
interaction of  words. If  we draw  out the basic linguistic truth that ideas can be 
broken down into words, and the different interactions of  words equalling 
different  ideas, we must  admit that by  an exhaustion of  the interaction of  
words, we will  be able to basically discover all ideas available to us.  This  is  
the  premise  of  the telical exhaustion  (or  purposeful  exhaustion)  of  the  
interaction of words.   All humanitarian research in medicine, social theory, 
politics, and mediation can be helped by this technique because it helps people 
think in a truly unbiased way with the criteria they need and want to use.  We 
use our minds to associate a few ideas here and there, and our mind catalogues 
the information that we have learned. But there are things that our mind has not 
learned, there are things that it has forgotten, and there are possibilities in which 
it is unable to see connections and new directions. 
 
	Eventually, this site may become so large with findings that it may look 
indeed like a place where there is the holding for the exhaustion of the 
interaction of words! 

Paramind Company Philosophy
	 
 	Ideas can be conceptualized as a plasticity -- something that can be broken 
down into constituent parts and re-combined. In fact, we can view ideas as a 
medium such as computer memory and peripheral components, and thus 
imagine a language like C++,  Basic, or Cobol to process ideas.  The Paramind 
program is an example of a new type of idea-processing language.  It contains 
some indispensable tools  for re-examining ideas, comparing ideas and creating 
new ideas that are in sequence and pattern with other logical ideas. 
 
	The first concept to grasp is the solution provided by using related word 
chains to solve some problems found in natural language programming.  Instead 
of relying on custom-indexed lexicons and huge lists of grammatical rules,  
easily created related word chains are one solution for substance in ideation 
software.  They can be created and indexed into patterns quickly and also when 
parsed with Paramind's word category techniques pull up all manners of cross-
references for logical idea expansion. 
 
	In any research there is a certain language private to that research.  
Chemistry uses chemistry notation, astronomy uses physics, biology uses 
combinations of both chemistry and physics and so on.  Paramind uses the 
technique of telical (or meaningful)  word interaction exhaustion to research the 
constituents in any field. 
 
	When a researcher is in their field they need to see the information in 
front of them in different ways.  They can shuffle papers, stare into clumsy text 
books -- but there is a better way.  The better way is to  systematically examine 
each element of their criteria into combinations with an expression of the 
problem they are trying to solve. With Paramind word category parsing and 
merge techniques this powerful research technique is realized (see information 
sheet on Paramind and the Internet) 
 
	What Paramind does is arrange such information in an exhaustive 
exposition.  This is guided by the creativity and knowledge of the user.  If 
someone is doing research in medicine with medical databases yet has no 
medical training, the kind of idea-lists that they will produce will have no bearing 
on positive research results.  However, a trained medical researcher will know 
which area to explore, which key sentence to write in, which words to use as 
"blanks" and which categories to fill in the "blanks" for the copy-merge 
techniques. 
 
	When  we  use  the  term  Artificial  Intelligence we should not be  
convinced  that  this  only  includes  trying  to get machines to develop 
autonomy. Instead we should see the Para-literature idea as  the  other  side  of  
Artificial Intelligence:  the  generation  of  useful,  unusual, and unknown 
information by computer.  
  
	Paramind's merge concept  is  another way  that computers  can give  us 
something exotic,  sparkling and exciting.   It  is proven  when  we  take already  
proven examples  --  a  key   sentence  that   contains  fertile  semantic 
information  on our  ideas, or  ideas and directions that  might interest  us --  and 
merge  them with  databases of  related word chains. We  then merge and  copy 
each sentence  with a  new  word, mutating the idea one step/level. The new 
ideas can be further mutated to different levels and indexed.  It seems possible 
that the archetype copy-merge routine will have applications outside of  text, 
perhaps intelligent merging of visual components into new kinds of CAD drawing 
techniques, even interfaced for a type of telical image-interaction exhaustion 
expositions. 
 
	Paramind Brainstorming Software is dedicated to innovation in research 
so that the solutions can appear quicker than they ever have before.  It is a 
possibility that all scientific problems up to the level of the most advanced 
scientific designs have their solutions.  The doorway to these solutions becomes 
apparent after using Paramind. 
 
A Short FAQ   (Frequently asked questions) for Paramind 
 
What is the copy-merge technique? 
The copy-merge technique is a useful technique that allows the reader to alter 
the direction of their original ideas into related directions by introducing new 
words.  Everything is kept in context because the reference of the sentence 
largely stays unchanged; only a few words are introduced at any one time. 
 
What is a key sentence? 
A key sentence is the first sentence that you start a Paramind merge out on. 
They are chosen for their richness of direction for the merge technique. 
 
What is a word category? 
A word category is a list of up to 22 words, symbols, or  phrases that Paramind 
uses for its brainstorming techniques. 
 
What is an idea-list? 
An idea list is the result of a Paramind merge. 
 
What does telical mean? 
Telical is an uncommon word which is used in information science.  Webster's 
describes it as "tending toward an end."    
 
A general description of Paramind's features 
 
	Paramind is a program that works with the concept of merging, but it has a database 
structure that indexes itself and provides different parsing routines for searching the databases.  
Thus groupings can be produced which make suggestions and connections with data in ways not 
seen before.  These connected word groups can then be merged in with new sentences, 
formulas, or any kind of text/character strings. 
 
	The "Merge" function is used when you want  to create lists of new ideas based on your  
sentence.  You write  a simple  sentence that states the  basics of your idea. You then  choose 
one word in that sentence with  the  mouse and replace it  with the many words in the  Paramind 
"Word Category"  database. You  simply  highlight the word you want to remove  with the mouse 
by double clicking on it. You then   select "Merge" from the "Create"  menu. It displays the "Word 
Category" index, and  then you  select  the category in the "Select Category to Expand" column. 
When you see  the one you  think will be  a good direction for the expansion of your  sentence, 
you click on "Ok"  and  Paramind will copy your sentence, each  time substituting your 
highlighted word with a word in  the category. 
 
 	"AutoMerge" is a way of  producing pages and pages of new word combinations in just 
minutes. For the times when you have to see  how things  look in  different relationships  to each 
other, "AutoMerge" will feed you back hundreds of new relationships. You can then  scan through 
them  with our own "tagging" editor to quickly copy  the ones that  you like for  a custom 
document  that highlights great new areas for your idea to move in. (Only in registered versions).
 
	Paste in any text from the clipboard in Windows and use the  "Find Word  to Substitute" 
for an automated search  of the word categories.  "Substitute Highlighted  Word" allows you  to 
browse through  the databases and  find a single  word that fits your  idea. It is  unlike a 
thesaurus as it doesn't limit you  to look for words with similar  meanings, but words in related 
word chains. You must first have a word  highlighted in  your  sentence,  like the  way you would 
when using  "Merge" to  use this  feature. It  is a  condensed way of looking through the related 
word chains. 
 
	"Replace by Category" is a toggle that allows you to either search the database or skip 
the search. Since it is a toggle it is a function that is used in conjunction with other features.  It is 
an advanced  feature that  is best used when you  have built a large custom database.  A  toggle 
is  another  name for a switch; you  can either click it  on to put a "check mark"  next to it,  or 
click it again to take the  "check mark" off. If you  want to  merge without  knowing about  a 
customized database, you will  not want it to be toggled on.   But many interesting new ideas can 
be had by selecting  "All" in the "Category Type" and selecting "Replace by Category." An 
example of using it is to  toggle it on, highlight a word, and then select "Merge" and see what 
"Word Categories"  come up in the dialogue box. 
 
	You can use the "Find Word to Substitute" feature to select a word category when you 
use the "Merge" feature.  That is, you can look through the database of word categories for the 
word category you want to use when you do a "Merge." This is the major parsing feature of 
Paramind. Then have a listing of your sentence with a new word in the slot that you had 
selected.  You see, you'll be searching for ideas that you haven't had yet, areas that have not 
suggested themselves to you.  Therefore even if you select a category to merge at random, you 
still use meaningful words to expand your idea, and that is the only way that we can expand our 
ideas: with more words, symbols,  or phrases. 
 
	PMSelect is a special editor that is alone worth the price of Paramind.  It is especially 
useful for people who collect large amounts of text files (such as Internet users) but only need a 
few key ideas here and there in these text-files. 
 
	PMSelect was created to quickly edit long Paramind outputs.  Paramind outputs can get 
up to 500K in length, that's over 40 pages!  So, to quickly find the selection of sentences that 
reflect those special areas your looking for, use PMSelect.  
 
	Your text will appear in PMSelect just like other word processors.  There is only one 
special feature that PMSelect can do, one not done by any word processor on the market.  It will 
let you select lines of text to copy all in one "dump."  These are called "non-contiguous" lines of 
text.  All other means of editing Paramind output only let you select a "block" of text at a time.  
This takes many keystrokes to create an edited file that really represents your new ideas. 
 
 

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Paramind Software PO Box 1006, Seattle WA 98111 USA
 
 
