Artificial imagination

Artificial imagination is also necessary for AGI. Imagination can take place simply by creating associations between concepts but obviously the best forms of imagination are going to be based on rational meaningfulness. So it seems that if the relationship is both imaginative and potentially meaningful it would be advantageous. An association formed by a categorical substitution is more likely to be meaningful so I consider this a rational form of imagination. the reliance of previously learned knowledge is really an application of the imagination. Perhaps it is a special form of imagination but the imagination none the less. Anyway, once an imaginative association or relation is created it has to be tested. This creates a problem when trying to test or validate an insight which was partially produced by the imagination or which had to be fitted using imaginative projection. back to Jim Bromer Theory