Aristotle, the Audio Database
-The natural Link between the Computer's memory and your own-
Power to Remember, Freedom to Forget




Contents

Introduction
Letter to C-I-J (your Cautious Internal Judge)
Aristotle's Technology in a Nutshell
Aristotle's Use in a Nutshell
Some Aristotle Innovations
Essay "Aristotle and the Information Age, Medicine, or Antidote?"
Questions most often asked
How to Order


Aristotle in a Nutshell
Aristotle is the program you wish you always had but did not think it was possible.
Aristotle is an audio data base that can store and quickly retrieve any audio information about everything and anything. You can index your messages by text or by voice, then with Aristotle's powerful reporting system you can retrieve any of your messages any time, now, tomorrow or in 10 years.
You can input data from a microphone or from a cassette recorder or CD. If using a microcassette recorder, or CD Aristotle will even store each subsequent message into a different record!!
A 1.6 Gbyte hard drive will store up to 700 hours of information, or 42,000 messages of 1 minute each or the content of 21 books of 75,000 pages/each.
Aritstotle's compression quality is unsurpassed - to show you the quality we send you, with the progam, 50 music tracks.
But Aristotle is much more - its intuitive audio editing system lets you treat sounds and words just as you treat them in your word processor. Its state-of-the-art compression lets you store music (you can put 97 hours of classical music or 134 hours of generic music on a 1.6 Gbyte hard disk). Aristotle's transcribing studio is the most advanced innovation in this field.
Aristotle gives you the magical ONE PLACE WHERE TO PUT ALL THE INFORMATION knowing that YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND IT.
For this reason alone Aristotle gives you the POWER TO REMEMBER and the FREEDOM TO FORGET (where you put the information)
Please read on for more details.


Introduction
Welcome to Aristotle, the new and revolutionary Audio Database. We say 'revolutionary' with reason. For the first time, the memory in your computer becomes a natural extension of your own memory. With Aristotle, you can control, manage, and drive the computer storing power in the way you manage your own natural memory. We will describe here how and why this is so. If you wish to refer immediately to the specifications of Aristotle then go to the section Aristotle Specifications. But, as we said, Aristotle can really revolutionize how you organize your own memory and this is a change in your life! Big changes should be introduced gradually. We invite you to follow the flow of information, so that we can show step by step how you can put Aristotle to work for you. But first some words to the C-I-J, the Cautious Internal Judge who lives in all of us.


Letter to C-I-J (your Cautious Internal Judge)

Dear C-I-J,
Few people do not want more of a good thing, for example, money, health, memory, and (for some) sex. The appeal is strong and if there is an appeal there is a product. The market for 'miracle' products delivering more of these good things is a bonanza for quacks, quackery, scams, and scam artists. Examples?

• The notice in your mail, "You may have already won $30 million"...
• The beauty creams that will restore the bloom of 15 to a lady of 50.
• The countless pills that will reverse aging, or enhance the user's sex appeal or will increase his/her memory.
• etc.

How do we defend ourselves? By relying on the C-I-J, the Cautious Internal Judge who warns us that anything to good to be true isn't either (good or true).
But here I ask you, C-I-J, to set aside for a moment your justified concerns. Aristotle will dramatically help your memory, but it is not a 'miracle' software program. It's operation relies on good, old fashioned common sense. Common sense tells us that to find something we must know where this something is. And to find where ANYTHING is, would be much easier if we could store EVERYTHING in one place. To 'find something' is memory in action. In turn, the limitation of memory is not that we don't remember something but that we don't know where we put it (in mind or space). In fact, when we say, "I forget (something)" we really mean "I remember that I remembered but now I don't know where it is." Nor could you 'forget' if you were not aware that (at least at one time) you 'remembered'.
The reverse is also true in a different way. To remember better we must be able to forget the inessential. But we instinctively (or unconsciously), cling on to information for fear that we may have undervalued its quality or importance. Besides, we cannot clear our memory in the way we clear or format a hard disk. As data piles up in our mind, it creates stress, which in turn reduces the power to remember.
This being the problem of memory, Aristotle solves it with ease and elegance, by giving you the one place where to store any, every, and all information.
The solution is easy because all you have to do is talk into the computer.
The solution is elegant because after you have spoken, Aristotle remembers, sorts, classifies, reports, retrieves, rearranges, manipulates, and plays back any record in whatever way you need or want.
As we will say more than once in this material, Aristotle give you power to remember because it frees you from the fear to forget.

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