Brainhat can be configured to answer (and ask) questions. This capability forms the basis for an active, anticipatory Frequently Asked Questions guide.

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Brainhat can be a FAQ server.

The text below is valid programming input for a Brainhat. It instructs the program to handle questions about the statue with the missing head, pictured at the left.

If a bodypart is on statue and the speaker can see the statue then the speaker can see the bodypart. If something is from ancient egypt then the something is ancient. If thing1 is on thing2 then thing2 has thing1. If a thing is valuable then a person wants a thing. If the head is missing then the eyes are missing.

The statue is from ancient egypt. Egyptians made the statue. Egypt is in the middle east. Egypt is a country. The statue is stone. Stone is hard. The statue is small. The statue is red. The statue has two arms. The statue has two hands. The statue has ten fingers.

Sapphire is valuable. Sapphire is blue. The statue's eyes are sapphire. The head is valuable because the eyes are on the head. The statue is in a museum. The speaker can see the statue.

The head is with a thief. The thief didn't steal the head. Nobody took the head. The thief has the head because the curator gave the head to the thief. The curator gave the head to the thief so the thief could hide the head. The thief is a man.

The speaker might want to know about the statue. If the speaker wants to know about the statue then tell the statue. If the speaker says hello then tell the speaker hello.

The initial paragraph provides some template inferences so that Brainhat can draw conclusions from the input that follows and be able to generalize answers for the user.

The middle paragraphs constitute the meat of the questions to be fielded by this meme.

The final paragraph provides a few dialog hints to the program to help motivate the conversation.

Taken together, the paragraphs form a single meme of perhaps many bundled into a memeplex or mplex. Brainhat can shift focus of the conversation to discussion of the statue if it appears that dialog is best conducted within this meme.

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