> From: Benjamin Goertzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > As an example of a creative leap (that is speculative and may be wrong, > but is > certainly creative), check out my hypothesis of emergent social- > psychological > intelligence as related to mirror neurons and octonion algebras: > > http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2007/mirrorself.pdf > > I happen to think the real subtlety of intelligence happens on the > emergent level, > and not on the level of the particulars of the system that gives rise > to the emergent > phenomena. That paper conjectures some example phenomena that I believe > occur on the emergent level of intelligent systems. >
This paper really takes the reader though a detailed walk of a really nice application of octonionic structure applied to the mind. The concept of mirrorhouses is really creative and thought provoking especially applied in this way. I like thinking about a mind in this sort of crystallographic structure yet there is no way I could comb through the details like this. This type of methodology has so many advantages such as - * being visually descriptive yet highly complex * modular and building block friendly * computers love this sort of structure, it's what they do best * there is an enormous amount of math existing related to this already worked out * scalable, extremely extensible, systematic * it fibrillates out to sociologic systems * etc.. Even if this phenomena is not emergent or partially emergent, (I favor partially at this point as crystal clear can be a prefecture of emergence), you can build AGI based on optimal emergent structures that the human brain might be coalescing in a perfect world, and also come up with new and better ones that the human brain hasn't got to yet either by building them directly or baking new ones in a programmed complex system. John ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=72153159-51ae59
