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Existential knowledge' is a field of study that seeks to determine the minimum knowledge needed to sustain intelligent existence. It was started by Warren Jones and Lana Rubalsky in 2006 as part of their work on stored purpose machine intelligence. Existential knowledge defines existence ontologically focusing on objective states of being, using principle constructs of the Platonic Form and context hypergraph data that enable the basic categories of being to be defined in a manner suitable for man-made intelligent entity construction. Traditionally, the study of existence and ontology is part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics. Existential knowledge asserts answers to metaphysical questions concerning when entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be defined. Existential knowledge currently avoids traditional hierarchal approaches to knowledge organization and defines all existential entities as having an Identity organized by regions called Purpose and subregions called Goals. Finally, it defines knowledge as an outcome of Goal Pursuit processing, also called Identity alignment.

Origins

Existential knowledge was developed as a means to enable Identity knowledge to be directly codified as an agent template, and then instantiated on a metacomputer running processes defined as the General intelligence algorithm.

Existential knowledge is the information basis for a machine intelligence architecture, called stored purpose. It describes knowledge objectively as the basis for intelligent existence. Knowledge is an "outcome" when Identity, built from a recording format for knowledge called Platonic Forms is instantiated in an existential host with a motive capability to align sensed states with Identity. The resultant existence model supports both Plato's view that Universal Forms, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality.assertion of a Universal pure Form of knowledge and Aristotle's requirement of qualification stated in his Metaphysics: “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true”.

Architecture

• Yogurt Platonic Form Example
  Yogurt Platonic Form Example
• Lawn Maintenance Platonic Form Example
  Lawn Maintenance Platonic Form Example
• Purpose Hypergraph Illustration
  Purpose Hypergraph Illustration

Mechanically, stored purpose composes knowledge information as a genetic fabric of Forms called a purpose hypergraph, that defines a hierarchy of Goals built from Forms, Purpose built from Goals and finally, the Identity of something that exists, built from Purpose. Goal pursuit is the key process of existence, and its Forms define not only the shape, sequence, coincidence and causal relationships of symbols related to the goal, but links between symbols and generic technology. All Forms are linked to locations in "contextual space" within the purpose hypergraph.

Learning

The mechanics of understanding requires first the projection of Identity as Plan in the "mind" and then the comparison of information with Identity, as the intelligent entity moves through contextual space. Knowledge is gained when information sensed differs with what is measured or planned. The accomodation of prediction or plan failure is the basis of learning. Thus plan failure is the second most important method of knowledge accrual. The primary means is by way of knowledge inherited in the genetic Forms that instantiate the agent entity.

According to Jones and Rubalsky, knowledge is an outcome, what happens when you take a symbol, object or some logic and align it, Platonically and contextually to your existence. It's not enough to have recorded in memory that yogurt is milk and bacteria that is heated and cooled. To know, you need to have an Identity with a goal to eat and contexts for morning—meal or cold—soup. You need an ability to sense the yogurt's existence and align it with a goal pursuit route to sate hunger. You need an ability to propagate yogurt as a choice that will become Reality when the entity enters context regions of eating or near yogurt. Finally, you need linkages and forms to process yogurt as technology, an extension of the body, that can be used to satisfy hunger." Without the mechanics of aligning a thing with the Form and meanings of Self, there is no knowledge.