Periodic Table of Cognition
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- #History of Science
- #Cognitive Science
- #Artificial Intelligence
- Early theories about electricity were profoundly wrong, despite contributions from pioneers like Franklin and Maxwell.
- Current theories about artificial intelligence are likely similarly incorrect due to our lack of understanding of intelligence itself.
- Electricity and intelligence are not singular, elemental forces but complex systems with multiple components.
- Intelligence may be a compound of multiple cognitive elements, similar to how water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen.
- A 'Periodic Table of Cognition' could help identify and organize cognitive elements like memory, spatial awareness, and pattern perception.
- Cognitive elements are dynamic and interdependent, making them difficult to isolate and study individually.
- AI is helping to identify cognitive elements, but we are far from a complete understanding, akin to early theories of electricity.
- Different species and AI systems will have unique combinations of cognitive elements, leading to diverse types of minds.
- Understanding intelligence will require identifying all its elemental parts, much like the periodic table was essential for atomic theory.
- Current use of AI, like LLMs, outpaces our theoretical understanding of intelligence, mirroring historical use of electricity before its full comprehension.