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Intelligence in the human cognitive supersystem is the result of the many cognitive processes taking place on multiple levels of organization. However, this statement is vague without hypotheses about specific levels of organization and specific cognitive phenomena. The concrete theory presented in Part II goes under the name of "deliberative general intelligence" (DGI).
The human mind, owing to its accretive evolutionary origin, has several major distinct candidates for the mind's "center of gravity". For example, the limbic system is an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that now coordinates activities in many of the other systems that later grew up around it. However, in (cautiously) considering what a more foresightful and less accretive design for intelligence might look like, I find that a single center of gravity stands out as having the most complexity and doing most of the substantive work of intelligence, such that in an AI, to an even greater degree than in humans, this center of gravity would probably become the central supersystem of the mind. This center of gravity is the cognitive superprocess which is introspectively observed by humans through the internal narrative - the process whose workings are reflected in the mental sentences that we internally "speak" and internally "hear" when thinking about a problem. To avoid the awkward phrase "stream of consciousness" and the loaded word "consciousness", this cognitive superprocess will hereafter be referred to as deliberation.
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