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

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

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