Abstract
This paper is intended to break the current research impasse on issues of mechanized thought. It bypasses the untractable recursive question: Is the human brain powerful enough to understand its own working? focusing on a more tractable:
Can we model, and maybe induce the process of thought? Given that this modeling effort is a particular thought process, this second question is also recur sive in nature and more general: it permits us not to consider the limitations of our brains due to their biological implementa tion.
In this article I model the concepts of complexity, error, surprise, intuition, thought and insight. I also analyze the concepts of consciousness and feelings. I describe the features any thinking system must have. It appears that humans might be able to create such systems in future.
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