It's very simple, humans remember, learn and search for solutions using metaphors. Any cognitive system that is not doing this cannot be a general intelligence. Anyone want to argue against this?
Here's @yudapearl saying that 'metaphors are the basis of human intelligence' . .
@yudapearl He refers to it as 'mapping the unfamiliar with the familliar'. I would generalize this and call this 'empathy'. gumroad.com/products/rDqnm
@yudapearl Douglas Hofstadter argues that 'analogies are the core of cognition' . . Empathy is the process of realizing metaphors or analogies.
@yudapearl To build AGI we have to understand how empathy emerged through evolution.
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@yudapearl A key building block towards empathy is intuition. Some (like Yoshua Bengio) would call this 'system 1' in the dual process theory framework: amazon.com/Artificial-Int…
@yudapearl But 'curve-fitting' based intuition is not enough. You need what I would call 'ingenuity'. @demishassabis calls this a kind of 'creativity' known as invention. medium.com/intuitionmachi…
@yudapearl @demishassabis The progression of learning proceeds first with interaction, then play and finally invention. But invention cannot come about without analogies or metaphor. We understand the world by mapping the unfamiliar with the familiar.
@yudapearl @demishassabis In fact, human reasoning is based on the same mechanism: medium.com/intuitionmachi…
@yudapearl @demishassabis The evolutionary pressure that drove the enhancement of human reasoning is the need for conversation. That is why, Conversational Cognition is the most advanced measure of general intelligence: medium.com/intuitionmachi…
