Epstein Secrets

of intel- ligence and mind. It then sketches the broad outlines of a novel, integrative architecture for Artificial General Intelligence (AGT) called CogPrime ... and describes an approach for giving a young AGI system (CogPrime or otherwise) appropriate experience, so that it can develop its own smarts, cr

haphazard or opportunistic combination of algorithms and data structures. At bottom it is motivated by the patternist philosophy of mind laid out in Ben Goertzel’s book The Hidden Pattern [Goe06al, which was in large part a summary and reformulation of ideas presented in a series of books published earlier by th

ut what this "tuning" should involve — namely, making a system possessing mind-state sequences that correspond meaningfully to world-state sequences. CogPrime’s overall design and particular cognitive processes are reasonably well interpreted as an attempt to achieve this for everyday human goals and enviro

e condition may be observing a cat. In this case, the corresponding Concept vertex in the mind of Ben Goertzel is the pattern of activity observed in Ben Goertzel’s brain when his eyes are open and he’s looking in the direction of a cat. The notion of pattern of activity can be made rigorous using mathematical pa

n concepts in one of Douglas Hofstadter’s books. Naturally, real concept heterarchies are far more large, complex and tangled than even this one. In CogPrime, ECAN enforces heterarchy via building SymmetricHebbianLinks, and PLN by building SimilarityLinks, IntensionalSimilarityLinks and ExtensionalSimilari

ing the activity of the MindAgents, and code for important and exporting data from the Atomspace. e Cognitive Equation: The principle, identified in Ben Goertzel’s 1994 book "Chaotic Logic", that minds are collections of pattern-recognition elements, that work by iteratively recognizing patterns in each other an