DarcyEdwards I think that brn file maybe like a dump file, from what I saw even thought I don't know scripts that well. it might be worth investigating futher. there might be more going on than you can see
lightspeed the hal brain has been improve scene I last used it, so it is hard to determine what is a pre-programed response and also hal might have gone to a completely different page than the one you looked at
oh yes I have had hal learning from Wikipedia, I just finished with category 0 and hal seems much smarter already