Fundamental Principles of Cognition
“If anyone makes a claim of having constructed (programmed) a cognitive agent, that agent should show evidence of adhering to [these 6½ Fundamental Principles]. I submit that the fewer of these principles an agent employs, the less cognitively interesting the agent is.”
- Principle 1: Object Identification (Categorization)
- Principle 2: Minimal Parsing (“Occam’s Razor”)
- Principle 3: Object Prediction (Pattern Completion)
- Principle 4: Essence Distillation (Analogy Making)
- Principle 5: Quantity Estimation and Comparison (Numerosity Perception)
- Principle 6: Association-Building by Co-occurrence (Hebbian Learning)
- Principle 6½: Temporal Fading of Rarity (Learning by Forgetting)
Sounds better than a Turing Test. ;)