Empathy Emergence - A General Theory of Intelligence

By

intuitionmachine

This book begins from the beginnings of the universe and explains how general intelligence becomes emergent.  A general theory of intelligence is proposed that is based on universal principles of information modularity.  A roadmap for how to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is revealed.   

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS - EARLY ACCESS

Early release versions of the entire book are now available at Gumroad. I will continue to update the book and you will be entitled to the final version.  Note that the most updated content are to be found in the individual PDF files.

Tentative Content:

1 Diversity of Minds 1

Introduction 1

Alien Minds 2

The Complexity of Neurons 6

Nano-Intentionality 9

Biological Design versus Human Design 13

Biologically Inspired Architecture 19

Growing General Intelligence 20

Many Kinds of Cognition 25

Conclusion 26

2 Patterns of Emergence 27

Introduction 27

Emergence 28

Jumps to Universality 34

The Necessity of Modularity 35

The Emergence of Everything 40

Emergence of Models 55

Composing Models via Loose Coupling 63

Synergy 72

Autonomy 72

Evolution via Continuous Interoperability 73

Conclusion 75

3 Emergence of Knowledge 77

Introduction 77

Minds are meant for Motion 78

Minds Seek Energy 81

Effective Complexity and Entropy 84

The Principle of Least Cognition 84

Sleep 87

Fluid Concepts 90

Prototypes ( Model based meta learning, prototypical ) 90

Error Correction 90

Code Duality 93

Semiotics 104

Constructor Theory 112

Information Emergence 120

Semiotics and Interoperability 133

4 Unknowing and Openendedness 136

Introduction 136

Unknowable Knowns 138

Deconstructing Complexity 141

The Value of Randomness 148

Limits of Induction 152

Limits of Shannon Information 157

Probability and Causality 162

Asymmetry of Information Discovery 171

Exploitation, Exploration and Representation 176

Generalization 181

Discovery and the Adjacent Possible 184

Just In Time Inference 190

Gaming Objective Functions 193

Principles of Real Magic 197

Cargo Cult Systematic Reasoning 200

Useful Models and Explanations 206

Limits of Rationality 211

Self Referential Systems 214

Uncertainty Principle in Cognition 216

Openended Questioning 218

Multi-Scale Emergence 221

5 Roadmap for General Intelligence 222

Introduction 222

Minds Understanding Minds 223

Revisiting Cybernetics 231

The High Bar of Judgment 239

Blind Spots 242

Artificial Ingenuity 250

Conversational Cognition 254

Recombinant Programming 260

Defining Stupidity 265

Key Dimensions of Cognition 269

Defining Intelligence 275

Weak General Intelligence Hypothesis 280

The Roadmap to AGI 280

The Plausibility of AGI 290

Circumventing Moravec’s Paradox 292

6 Level One - Intuition 296

Introduction 296

Artificial Intuition 297

Characteristics of Artificial Intuition 303

Law of the Excluded Middle 307

Mimetics 307

Intuition Demolishes Logic 308

Perturbations and Diversity 311

Meta Model 318

Stochastic Gradient Descent 323

A Reality Checklist 333

Deep Learning Limitations 334

7 Level Two - Generative Selves 343

Introduction 343

Sylistic GANs 343

Ego Motion 349

Inside Out 356

Emotions 362

Unknown Rewards 366

Intrinsic Motivation 375

Emergent Self 382

Constraint Closure 388

8 Level Three - Dual Process 395

Introduction 395

Coordinating Rationality and Intuition 395

The Strange Loop 401

Split Brain 406

Self Play 406

Game Theoretic Coordination 414

Language Driven 423

Population Based (Generalization of self play) 428

9 Level Four - Causal World Models 429

Introduction 429

Infant Cognitive Development 430

Human Perception 433

Navigation 443

Time Slicing and Rhythm 445

Dexterity 449

Touch 454

Personalities 460

Context Entanglement211 467

Self-Supervised Learning 467

Sequence Learning 475

Transformer Networks 475

Graph Relational Learning 476

Capsule Networks 481

Causal Reasoning 481

Top-Down Causality 483

10 Level Five - CounterFactual Questioning 484

Introduction 484

The Spectrum of Embodied Learning 484

Memory Patterns 489

Introspection 494

Symbol Detachment 495

Fusion of Logic and Intuition 498

Explanation 501

Decision Theory 506

Meta Reasoning 506

11 Level Six - Conversational Empathy 507

Introduction 507

Origins 507

The Many Body Problem 512

Empathy Machines 515

Games - Wittgenstein 519

Social Learning - Imitation, Mind-Reading, Language, 519

Ecosystems - Gadgets - Gregorian 519

The Rhythms of Conversation 520

Reasoning is Conversation 525

Nano Empathic Learning 530

Analogy and Relevance Realization 538

Architectures of Collaboration 554

Scaling Intelligence 560

Pattern Languages 568

AI Generating AI 572

12 Transforming Civilization 573

Introduction 573

Selling Sugar Water 573

The Illusion of Technological Permanence 577

Artificial Personhood 579

Knowledge = Atoms Multiplied by C Squared 586

Meaningfullness of Inconvenience 600

The Information Theory of Aging 603

The Beholder’s Shared Intentionality 611

The Empathy in Art 611