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A Patternist Philosophy of Mind

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In the last chapter we discussed human intelligence from a fairly down-to-earth perspective, looking at the particular intelligent functions that human beings carry out in their everyday lives. And we strongly feel this practical perspective is important: Without this concreteness, it’s too easy for AGI research to get distracted by appealing (or frightening) abstractions of various sorts.

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    In some prior writings the term “psynet model of mind” has been used to refer to the application of patternist philosophy to cognitive theory, but this term has been “deprecated” in recent publications as it seemed to introduce more confusion than clarification.

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    While these points are implicit in the theory of mind given in [Goe06a], they are not articulated in this specific form there. So the material presented in this section is a new development within patternist philosophy, developed since [Goe06a] in a series of conference papers such as [Goe09a].

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    While these points are highly compatible with theory of mind given in [Goe06a], they are not articulated there. The material presented in this section is a new development within patternist philosophy, presented previously only in the article [GPPG06].

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    In [GPPG06], what is here called “analysis” was called “backward synthesis”, a name which has some advantages since it indicated that what’s happening is a form of creation; but here we have opted for the more traditional analysis/synthesis terminology.

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  1. G/F 51C Lung Mei Village, Tai Po, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

    Ben Goertzel

  2. Igenesis, Av. Prof. Mário, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Cassio Pennachin

  3. Samokov, Bulgaria

    Nil Geisweiller

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Goertzel, B., Pennachin, C., Geisweiller, N. (2014). A Patternist Philosophy of Mind. In: Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1. Atlantis Thinking Machines, vol 5. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-027-0_5

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