提出函数对齐理论，解释心智如何通过层级表征互动产生意义与智能。
Function Alignment: A New Theory of Mind and Intelligence, Part I: Foundations
- 基于层级表征间的交互，构建意义与类比生成的统一机制。
- 揭示有限可解释性，统一解释认知科学中的理性限度、符号接地等现象。
- 融合计算架构、心理学与禅修传统，为心智建模提供跨学科蓝图。
本文提出函数对齐（Function Alignment）——一种关于心智与智能的新理论，兼具直觉吸引力与结构基础。该理论明确刻画了意义、解释与类比如何从分层表征的交互中涌现，形成一个既能建模心智，又能作为构建心智蓝图的连贯框架。函数对齐的一个关键理论洞见是有限可解释性（bounded interpretability），它为认知科学中此前分散的观点（如有限理性、符号接地、类比推理）提供了统一解释。除了建模能力外，该框架还连接了常被割裂的领域，将计算架构、心理理论乃至禅宗等内省传统相联结。它不依赖任何哲学体系，而是提供一个结构基础，使多种心智理解方式得以重构。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper introduces function alignment, a novel theory of mind and intelligence that is both intuitively compelling and structurally grounded. It explicitly models how meaning, interpretation, and analogy emerge from interactions among layered representations, forming a coherent framework capable not only of modeling minds but also of serving as a blueprint for building them. One of the key theoretical insights derived from function alignment is bounded interpretability, which provides a unified explanation for previously fragmented ideas in cognitive science, such as bounded rationality, symbol grounding, and analogy-making. Beyond modeling, the function alignment framework bridges disciplines often kept apart, linking computational architecture, psychological theory, and even contemplative traditions such as Zen. Rather than building on any philosophical systems, it offers a structural foundation upon which multiple ways of understanding the mind may be reconstructed.
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