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About this paper
David Weinbaum, Viktoras Veitas
The Global Brain Institute at VUB proposes "open-ended intelligence" as a theoretical framework, redefining general intelligence as a dynamic process of individuation rather than a fixed competence, thus addressing conceptual limitations in current AGI definitions. It introduces a multi-strata model where intelligence emerges from the self-organization and coordination of metastable assemblages, highlighting how values and cognitive boundaries are formed rather than pre-given.
Key insights
- Intelligence is better understood as a dynamic process of "individuation" (formation of agents and their distinctions) rather than a static property or fixed competence.
- The agent-environment boundary, goals, and values are not pre-given but emerge as products of ongoing individuating processes and reflexive interactions.
- Open-ended intelligence is characterized by a balance of information integration (compatibility) and operational complexity (differentiation), representing coordination within a self-organizing system.
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