Welcome to General Intelligence and Seed AI version 2.3.  The purpose of this document is to describe the principles, paradigms, cognitive architecture, and cognitive components needed to build a complete mind possessed of general intelligence, capable of self-understanding, self-modification, and recursive self-enhancement.
 

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• Preface [3K]
• Executive Summary and Introduction [18K]
• 1: Paradigms
• 1.1: Seed AI [22K]
• 1.1.1: The AI Advantage
• 1.2: Thinking About AI [17K]
• 2: Mind
• 2.1: World-model [21K]
• Interlude: The Consensus and the Veil of Maya [7K]
• 2.2: Sensory modalities [29K]
• 2.3: Concepts [43K]
• 2.3.1: Modality-level, concept-level, thought-level
• 2.3.2: Abstraction is information-loss; abstraction is not information-loss
• 2.3.3: The concept of "three"
• 2.3.4: Concept combination and application
• 2.3.5: Thoughts are created by concept structures
• Interlude: Represent, Notice, Understand, Invent [6K]
• 2.4: Thoughts [24K]
• 2.4.1: Building the world-model
• 2.4.2: Creativity and invention
• 2.4.3: Thoughts about thoughts
• 2.4.4: The legitimate use of the word "I"
• 3: Cognition
• 3.1: Time and Linearity [71K]
• 3.1.1: The dangers of the system clock
• 3.1.2: Synchronization
• 3.1.3: Linear metaphors:  Time, quantity, trajectory
• 3.1.4: Linear intuitions:  Reflection, simultaneity, interval, precedence
• 3.1.5: Quantity in perceptions
• 3.1.6: Trajectories
• Version History [1K]
• Appendix A: Glossary [46K]

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