A Theory of Thinking: the Constructive Evolution of Complexity (15 Page Pdf)
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A 15-page PDF on the constructive evolution of complexity and its relation to thinking.
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My approach is based on a philosophical thesis: thinking is the spontaneous and logical evolution of complexity through generalization. The manuscript describes an effective algorithm that implements this idea. I call it a thinking algorithm.
A word of warning: this is a purely "philosophical" algorithm. There are no experiments or proofs, just the motivation and the description. The goal was to build a different kind of animal, not another sophisticated parrot. And at the very end, there's an optional bit of pseudo-constructive, Leibniz-style philosophy of consciousness.
Hope you find it interesting.