Well what is intelligence if not a collection of tools? One of the hardest
problems is coming up with such tools that are generalizable across domains,
but can't that just be a question of finding more tools that work well in a
computer environment, instead of just finding the "ultimate principle".
The "ultimate principles" of intelligence mostly have to do with the
emergent structures and
dynamics that arise in a complex system, allowing this system to model
and predict its own
overall coordinated behavior patterns...
These structures/dynamics include things we sloppily describe with words
like "self", "will"
and "attention" ...
Thinking of a mind as a toolkit is misleading. A mind must contain a
collection of tools that
synergize together so as to give rise to the appropriate high-level
emergent structures and dynamics.
The tools are there, but focusing on their individual and isolated
functionality is not terribly
productive in an AGI context.
The brain, for example, has some kick-ass specialized tools, such as its
face recognition
algorithms. But these are not the essence of its intelligence. Some of
its weaker tools, such as
its very sloppy algorithms for reasoning under uncertainty, are actually
more critical to its
general intelligence, as they have subtler and more thoroughgoing
synergies with other tools
that help give rise to important emergent structures/dynamics.
-- Ben Goertzel
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