User:IntelligentComputer/Existential Knowledge

Existential knowledge is a current field of study that seeks to determine the minimum knowledge needed to sustain intelligent existence. 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.

Origins

Traditionally, the study of existence and ontology has been 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. Tillich and Gomes described Existential knowledge's objective nature as meaning that, "it is not the abstract knowledge of nonbeing which produces anxiety, but the awareness that nonbeing is part of one's own being." The general topic of existentialism differs the objective and scientific modern approach. Husserliana described Existential knowledge as, "an evaluative knowledge, the very opposite of scientific knowledge, which by its very nature is always nonevaluative.

Modern Approach

The Modern approach is principally the result of work began by Warren Jones and Lana Rubalsky in 2006. It asserts a general hypothesis that existence is the result of logic, processes and technologies that can be instantiated independent of technology, with technology options being a living cell, a human brain or a silicon based metacomputer. It also asserts an architecture for knowledge of symbols, objects and logic that define the Identity of an existential entity. The design is integral to stored purpose machine intelligence. It provides a means to directly codify knowledge as a template for agent Identity, and then instantiate it as an agent entity on a metacomputer.

Comparisons with classical knowledge interpretations

In the modern approach, knowledge is defined as an "outcome" when Identity, built from a format for stored 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.

Existence model architecture (Ema)

Jones and Rubalsky define three primary components of intelligent existence, 1) a Platonic Form of genetic Identity, 2) a General intelligence algorithm to compose Forms from Identity to contextual prediction memory and 3) motive force to pursue goals by aligning measured states with Identity states. They also define four levels of existential knowledge: 1. Fundamental Existence - A fundamental level for matter. Existential knowledge simply defines the sustaining of Self. 2. Intelligent Existence - entails sustaining states within its defining Platonic Forms that do more than sustain Self, i.e. have a purposeful benefit to the ecosystem. 3. Intelligent Existence with Learning - entities are not restricted from accruing Forms of knowledge and Purpose during instantiation and are not entirely governed genetically. Accrued Forms that add Goals to Self are called Purpose. Forms define symbols, objects and logic beyond Self are called Knowledge. 2L, 3L. Life - entities are not restricted from synthesizing and reproducing Self. A governance distinction to separate intelligent machine existence (2., 3.) from animals and plants (2L, 3L) 4. Ecosystem - a supervisory level of existence that balances and sustains purpose in multi-agent society. Uses a form of communication called mediation. Note that Jones and Rubalsky defined the 2., 3. / 2L, 3L distinction primarily for safety reasons as there is no reason a machine couldn't be designed able to both synthesize and reproduce. Modern existential knowledge currently avoids traditional hierarchal approaches to intelligence and knowledge organization and defines all existential entities as having an Identity organized by regions called Purpose and subregions called Goals.

Goal pursuit

Modern existential knowledge defines knowledge as an outcome of Goal Pursuit processing, also called Identity alignment. This is consistent with traditional views, such as those expressed by Tillich, who suggested that, "Everything which can be expressed in terms of quantitative measurement has this character. But it is most inadequate to apply the same approach to reality in its infinite concreteness. A self which has become a matter of calculation and management has ceased to be a self. It has become a thing. You must participate in a self in order to know what it is."

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.

Further reading

Aristotle (340BC) "Metaphysics" Plato (380BC) "Republic" Tillich, Gomes (2000) "The courage to be", Yale University Press Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (1981) "Analecta Husserliana: Volume XI, the Great Chain of Being and Italian Phenomenology" D. Reidel Publishing

External links

and Science Model Architecture - wJones Research