Introduction
This
book is filled with wild ideas! It is a product of long-term brooding
over the topic of Intelligence and most especially how to build it.
The thoughts contained in this work have consumed me for the greater
part of my life on earth and I think it is about time I share it with
the world.
This
is not a research paper nor does this book seek to become an
authority on what constitutes that aspect of human cognitive
functioning which we call “intelligence”. This book is meant to
be inspirational to the active coder/researcher working on some kind
of AI project, it serves to expand the horizon of thought, playing
with sacred ideas and even challenging them. Of course, there is a lot of bashing of popularly held ideas and some fresh ones that have
not been considered seriously by the majority.
I
act more like a prophet/philosopher than a scientist in this writing
but the ideas contained here are very clear and if you keep an open
mind it will challenge your current paradigm, expand it and enable
you to start conceiving ideas you never thought about and eventually
maybe lead you to start hacking them out on some new projects.
In
the past scientist often gained inspiration from philosophers, and
indeed most of these philosophers eventually became a scientist
themselves or were actually practising scientists. Without a
grounding philosophy, we don’t have a map to aid in our exploration
of nature or any other field.
A
poor philosophy will lead us to dead ends or make us try to answer
the wrong questions because we didn’t even bother to ask the
right questions in the first place.
This
is the role I play here, I bring in new ideas and recast old ones in
a new light. I emphasize certain directions and detract from others.
I am a human being and I have preferences and what I write here are
mostly what I prefer, I am not writing a reference manual or an
encyclopedia, I am proposing intimate ideas that if looked at with
sympathetic eyes and an understanding mind could lead us forward
faster towards the goal of achieving substrate free synthetic
intelligence (AGI (artificial general intelligence))
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